Alsace Wine Route
Alsace Wine Route features on the Gingerguide audio walk through Strasbourg. Give it roughly ~240 min: enough to look, hear a two to three minute story on the spot, and ask the AI guide whatever the story leaves open.
- Type village
- Suggested visit ~240 min
- Strasbourg Strasbourg guide
About Alsace Wine Route
The 170km Route des Vins d'Alsace running through fairy-tale wine villages from Strasbourg south to Mulhouse, producing Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Pinot Gris.
The Route des Vins d'Alsace is one of the great wine tourism routes of Europe, running 170 kilometres from Marlenheim near Strasbourg south to Thann near Mulhouse along the eastern foothills of the Vosges Mountains. It passes through approximately 70 wine-producing villages, many of them so perfectly preserved in their medieval and Renaissance character that they resemble open-air museums: Riquewihr, Ribeauvillé, Kaysersberg (Albert Schweitzer's birthplace), Eguisheim, Obernai, and dozens more. Alsace produces some of France's most distinctive wines, all made from single grape varieties (unlike most French appellations, which blend). The noble varietals are Riesling (the king of Alsatian wines: steely, mineral, ageworthy), Gewurztraminer (aromatic, rose-petal and lychee notes, with the most powerful aroma of any wine grape), Pinot Gris (full-bodied, spiced, amber-tinged), and Muscat. Vendange Tardive (late harvest) and Sélection de Grains Nobles are the exceptional sweet wines. The Alsace Grand Cru appellation covers 51 individual vineyard sites.
Did you know? Gewurztraminer has the most powerful aromatics of any wine grape in the world, a glass in the next room can sometimes be identified by smell alone.
How long is a visit to Alsace Wine Route?
Set aside roughly ~240 min for Alsace Wine Route. That covers a good look and the narrated story, and because you set the pace you can always stay on.
Is Alsace Wine Route worth your time?
Alsace Wine Route is among the 18 narrated highlights the Gingerguide team chose for Strasbourg, so it is worth a look. Hear the story for the context, then ask the AI guide for anything more.
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