Alsace wine route
Riquewihr, Alsace
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Alsace wine route – ask Decanter

Can you recommend some tour operators who are reputable and have a good track record? And ideally, when is the best time to go?

Sue Style replies: Alsace is a great choice for a vineyard walking holiday. There’s a large network of well-signposted walking trails that criss-cross the vineyards, more wineries than you can shake a walking stick at and delicious food to greet you at the end of the day.

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There are plenty of vineyard tours, many of them self-guided itineraries with maps and instructions.

Your luggage will be transported from place to place, so you can visit wineries and taste wines without having to worry about taking the wheel afterwards.

Alsace wine route

Route du vins sign.
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My favourite months are September and October – temperatures are often deliciously warm and the vineyards ablaze with reddish-golden colours.

Tour operators offering Alsace vineyard walks include: ATG Oxford, Inntravel and Arblaster & Clarke.

Sue Style is a wine and food writer based in Alsace. Editing for Decanter.com by Eleanor Douglas.

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Sue Style
Sue Style
Decanter Magazine, Food, Wine & Travel Writer

Sue Style is into food, wine and travel and writes about all three – sometimes separately, often in combination. She comes originally from Yorkshire and has migrated over the years to London, Madrid, Fontainebleau, Mexico City and Basel. She lives in southern Alsace, within spitting distance of the region’s vineyards and conveniently placed for cross-border raids into Switzerland and across the Rhine to Baden/Germany, both of whose wines and food she explores at every opportunity. She also travels regularly to Catalunya, where both her children have had the good taste to settle. She's the author of nine books on subjects ranging from Mexican food through the food and wines of Alsace and of Switzerland to creative vegetable cookery.