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About Amble Journeys
Everything we do runs through someone we knowFive countries, hosted from the inside — as a small group of ten or twelve, or entirely privately.
- 5countries
- 10–12on a group trip
- 1–12on a private journey
- 1 day – 3 weeks
The problem with most travel
You can plan a place perfectly and still not reach it
You have done the research. You have read the reviews, shortlisted the hotels, bookmarked the restaurants. And you have still come home feeling like you only scratched the surface.
The best table was the one you did not know to book. The winemaker whose cellar you drove past without knowing what was inside. The local who would have shown you everything, if only you had known them.
Amble exists to close that gap. Not with a better itinerary — with the relationships that put you on the other side of the door.
How Amble began
It started in Spain, with a handful of people
Amble Journeys was founded by Tina Finan — traveller, food and wine enthusiast, and corporate CFO who spent years travelling the world for work and for pleasure.
Through those years she noticed a gap. There were plenty of luxury tours offering five-star hotels and Michelin-starred restaurants. What was harder to find — almost impossible to book — was the kind of access that turns a holiday into something you keep. A private lunch with a winemaker on his family estate. A mezcal tasting in an Oaxacan producer’s workshop. Dinner cooked for you in someone’s home. Those experiences existed. They simply required relationships that most travellers, and most tour operators, did not have.
It began in Spain, with a small number of people who let us into their cellars and their kitchens — and who kept saying yes, year after year, because of how the guests we brought behaved once they were through the door. Everything Amble has built since, in France, Italy, Mexico and Japan, rests on what those first relationships taught us.
With a CFO’s eye for detail and a traveller’s instinct for what genuinely matters, every journey is meticulously organised and effortlessly relaxed — and luxury is measured by the depth of the experience, not the number of stars on the hotel.
Our Local Legends
Not guides. Insiders.
“When you travel with Amble, you are not being given a tour. You are being welcomed in.”
Every Amble journey is hosted by a Local Legend — a sommelier, chef, cheesemaker, grower or artisan who is not simply familiar with a place but woven into the fabric of it. They lead the journey, they open the doors, and their relationships with winemakers, producers and artisans create access that is not available any other way.
From the beginning we were clear that Amble journeys would not be led by generalist tour leaders showing guests the highlights from the outside. Finding the right people took time. Earning their trust took longer. They open those doors because they know us — and because they know the people we bring through them will appreciate what they are being shown.
A different kind of luxury
Measured in access, not thread count
It is not the thread count of the sheets or whether the restaurant has a star — though we will not say no to either. It is sitting across a table from someone who has spent thirty years making wine on one particular hillside, and understanding something about that place you could not have read in a book.
Accommodation is chosen for character as much as comfort. Meals are occasions, not logistics. The pace leaves room to wander. And every tasting, dinner and behind-the-scenes visit is arranged for your group alone.
- Hosted by an insider, never a generalist tour leader
- Ten to twelve guests on a scheduled departure; one to twelve on a private journey
- A single day, or three weeks
- Every experience privately arranged for your group
- Meticulously planned, so you arrive and simply experience it
Where we have people
We only go where we know the people
That keeps the list short, and it keeps the access real. Five countries, and our own people in all of them.
Spain
Where Amble began, and still the country we know best
Winemakers in Penedès, Priorat, Rioja and Ribera del Duero, private estate dinners, and the chefs and producers shaping one of Europe’s most exciting food cultures. The longest relationships and the deepest bench of Local Legends.
Catalonia · La Rioja · Ribera del Duero · Madrid · Mallorca · San Sebastián
France
Cellars that never opened to visitors in the first place
Private tastings from the Côte d’Or to the Left Bank, time with sommeliers, growers and négociants, and access to families whose wines rarely leave the village they are made in.
Burgundy · Bordeaux · Champagne · Paris
Italy
Italy’s green heart, and the people holding on to the craft
Truffle hunts at dawn, long-table lunches in the countryside, and time with the artisans keeping generations of craft alive — cheesemakers, olive millers, bakers, ceramicists.
Umbria
Mexico
Two Mexicos, and we know both
Mezcal at the palenque with the family who distil it, time with chefs, weavers and potters, and an immersion into Mexico’s culinary depth through the people who define it.
Oaxaca · Mexico City
Japan
Arranged on request rather than listed
A more considered pace of travel — intimate dining rooms with eight seats, sake breweries in their working season, and encounters with craftspeople who offer a perspective on Japan well beyond the expected. Start a conversation and we will tell you honestly what we can open.
Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka · and beyond
Two ways
How you can travel with us
The same doors, the same hosts and the same table — shared with ten or twelve others, or entirely your own.
Group trips
The Amble experience, shared
Scheduled departures limited to ten or twelve guests, each one privately hosted by the person who lives there. Travel with like-minded people who care about the same things you do. Dates, itinerary and pricing on each trip’s page.
Private journeys
Your dates. Your pace. Your journey.
Built from scratch around how you want to travel — one guest to twelve, a single day to three weeks. A morning in Burgundy with a sommelier, a hosted food experience in Oaxaca, dinner with a winemaker in Catalonia. One standalone moment, or the whole trip.
Start here
Come and sit at the table
Join a scheduled departure, or tell us where you would like to go and we will build it around you. Either way, you travel with someone who already belongs there.