The WINE TRAIL Of ALSACE

One of the oldest wine trails in France celebrates its 50 years in 2003. Into fifty years many things changed in the Alsatian vineyard... but not the main thing!
Each 170 km of the Wine trail invites you to approach an area where the life is an art. At the first glance, the Wine trail of Alsace offers a true postal card image: dapper grapevines climbing with the assault of the Vosgean forests, ruins of proud castles of the Middle age, villages with the old ramparts which protect nothing but the happiness of the flowered alleys, the accessible winstubs, vaults in feast, but also of the secular residences, the Roman churches or of the fountains generously bequeathed by the Rebirth.
For all these unforgettable images, the Wine trail of Alsace deserves your visit. But it is only to the curious traveller, leaving the beaten paths, which it will reveal its most secret turnings. From the Door of Marlenheim to that of Thann, take time to discover the heart of the Road: meet the vine growers, taste their wines, let youself lost in the streets of the medieval cities then, far from the multitude, traverse the wine paths and admire, in the vines perched high, the panorama which will belong only to you the time of a pause. Lastly, let you surprise, with each stage, by the art of Alsatian living and its culinary creativity which makes of Alsace, with the complicity of its wines, one of the gluttonous areas of France!

WINE PATHS :
To the discovery of the vineyard, out of the beaten paths. Giving up one moment the charms of the Wine Road, plunge in the heart of the vineyard by traversing one or the other of the wine paths. One does not count any less than 38 which curves in the heart of the vines and the picturesque cities.
Marked out with many panels of information, each wine path attempts to reveal the work of the vine grower, the art of the wine of Alsace and the characteristics specific to each type of vine. During two hours of walk at most, each wine path opens on Alsace the colors, savours, and supports a rich contact with the personality of the vine growers who animate them. Tastings to the support! Discover the wine paths of the communes of Barr, Blienschwiller, Cchâtenois, Dahlenheim, Dambach-the-city, Dorlisheim, Epfig, Ergersheim, Heiligenstein, Marlenheim, Mittelbergheim, Molsheim, Obernai, Roshaim, Scherwiller, Traeanhaim, Wangen and Westhoffen, in the Low-Rhine (67) and of Bergheim, Eguisheim, Gueberschwihr, Hattstatt, Herrlisheim, Kientzheim, Orschwihr, Pfaffenheim, Rouffach, Sigolsheim, Soulzmatt, Turckheim, Westhalten and Wwuenheim, as well as the path "the pearls of the vineyard" gathering the communes of Bennwihr, Riquewihr and Zellenberg in High-Rhin (68)
Information :
The Interprofessional Council of the Wines of Alsace.
Tel. : 03 89 20 16 20
Fax : 03 89 20 16 30
E-mail : civa@civa.fr
Internet : www.vinalsace.com

THE FESTIVALS OF THE WINE AND THE WINE FAIRS

THE SCHOOL OF THE WINES OF ALSACE

THE VISITS OF CELLARS AND TASTINGS

THE HOUSE OF THE WINES OF ALSACE

THE ALSATIAN GASTRONOMY

The THREE CONTROLED LABELS OF ORIGIN

THE MUSEUM OF THE VINEYARD AND THE WINES OF ALSACE

SEVEN VINTAGES OF ALSACE

LATE VENDAGES MENTIONS & NOBLE SELECTIONS OF GRAINS

THE GRAPE HARVEST IN ALSACE

CULTUVATION AND WINES