Route des Vins d'Alsace
D35 (Route des Vins) · Obernai → Colmar · France
- Length
- 39 miles
- Drive time
- 1 h 45 min
- Type
- Grand touring road
- Region
- Europe
Before you go: Slow traffic through villages during the autumn harvest and festival weekends
France's oldest wine road threads vineyard slopes beneath the Vosges, stitching together a chain of impossibly pretty half-timbered villages between Obernai and Colmar. Short straights, constant village flick-flacks and a cellar door every mile.
Highlights of the Route des Vins d'Alsace
- Riquewihr's walled medieval streets
- Haut-Kœnigsbourg castle detour
- Vineyard lanes beneath the Vosges
Where to stop on the Route des Vins d'Alsace
- Mittelbergheim viewpoint — Plus Beaux Villages wine village draped over a vine-clad hill near the start
- Winstub Au Tire-Bouchon, Riquewihr food — Traditional winstub in the walled town — tarte flambée and local pinot
- Château de Kaysersberg viewpoint — Castle tower over the vines — short walk up from the town square
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