Wine Roads

White Wine Roads – 2 weeks
Trip not currently scheduled in 2010 (will operate in 2011)

Alsace (France with a bit of Germany) and Switzerland (with bits of France)

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Overview Map
of all of our routes

Departure Calendar
of our regular trips
What's Included
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Additional Services
you can add to the bike trip.

The French side of the Rhine, and the Swiss Rhône, undiscovered facets of two 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, chardonnay, arvine, gewurtztraminer, pinot gris, pinot blanc, sauvignon blanc, viognier... there just aren’t that many other white grapes that matter! And you will cycle past them all. Heck, these people even make white wine out of pinot noir.

But grapes are far from the only interest of this glorious ride, one of Blue Marble’s most scenic. Dramatic mountains in the Valais, half-timbered Alsatian villages with storks nesting in their chimneys, the shining waters of Lake Geneva, velvet hills and spruce forests of the Jura and the Vosges: all line your route.

Strasbourg, Colmar, Evian and Zermatt are the towns through which we pass, some of Europe’s most interesting and beautiful, but for oh, such different reasons! From Europe’s co-capital, to her premier ski resort (the hiking is great, even if the glacier slopes are closed), to her most famous spa, your senses will be stimulated in every dimension. And that’s without even considering the biking!

White Wine Roads – Facts & Figures
No 2010 Dates Scheduled
Baggage Services Offered**
(optional)
Daily
Half
Lite

* Prices in $ and € do not include precisely the same things.   Click here for details, and for prices of optional extras: private single rooms, baggage services, and (in the case of the € price only) bike rental and shipping.

** At least 4 riders must subscribe to a given baggage service for it to operate.  The services listed are those currently offered on the departure in question.  Services which appear in bold already have at least 3 subscribers (so, one more would ensure their operation).  See here for a discussion of our baggage services.


Thumbnail view of the trip’s itinerary.
For details within each region, click on the name under “Region Visited”...
Days
Days of the Week
Region Visited
 Details
1
Sa
 Meet in Strasbourg
Some departures meet instead on the Lac de Joux.  These operate one day of the week earlier:  Saturday is the first biking day, and Friday, May 30th, is the last.
1 - 7
Sa - Tu
 The White Towns of the North, Strasbourg
Tu - Th
 The Route du Vin (Wine Road), Colmar and the Munster Valley
Fr & Sa
 The Vosges Mountains
7
Sa
Train to Switzerland
 Trips which inverse the regions train to Alsace, instead.
7 - 14
Sa - Mo
 The Jura
Mo - Th
 Lake Geneva, the Alps
Th - Sa
 Zermatt, the Vispa Valley
Trip disbands Saturday, on arrival in Brig.
The Brig Access Package includes a night over the border in Italy.
Trips which inverse the regions disband in Mulhouse, instead.
15
Su
Post-Access Package travel date