White Wine Roads – 2 weeks

Alsace (France with a bit of Germany) and Northern Burgundy

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The French side of the Rhine, an undiscovered facet of one of Europe’s greatest river valleys.  And on whose banks grow what must surely be the greatest concentration of white wine vineyards in the world.  Vines bear riesling, sylvaner, chasselas, muscat, gewurtztraminer, pinot gris, pinot blanc... there just aren’t that many other white grapes that matter!  Heck, these people even make white wine out of pinot noir.

The two missing white grapes come up in the second half:  the steely flavors of genuine chablis, chardonnay as you can only dream it, matched with Sauvignon de St-Bris, a sauvignon blanc as it was meant to be. 

And you will cycle past them all, on one of our most bike-fiendly routes:  often on dedicated cycle routes, or along canal tow paths, with nary an auto in sight.

Indeed, grapes are far from the only interest of this ride, one of Blue Marble’s most scenic.  Half-timbered Alsatian villages with storks nesting in their chimneys, the hillside vineyards of Irancy, Chablis, Cravant, velvet hills and spruce forests of the Vosges... all line your route.





Strasbourg, Colmar, Auxerre and Dijon are the towns through which we pass:  some of Europe’s most interesting and beautiful, but for oh, such different reasons! Your senses will be stimulated in every dimension.  And that’s without even considering the biking!