Affiliate Disclosure

Plainly, and before anything else: Alsace Wine Tours may earn a commission when you book through a link on this site, at no extra cost to you.

What that means in practice

The tours listed here are sold by Viator and GetYourGuide. When you follow a link from one of these pages and go on to book, the platform pays us a share of its own commission. You pay the same fare either way; the price on the booking page is the operator's price, not a marked-up one.

What we are not

We are not a tour operator. We do not run any of these tours, employ any of these guides or hold your booking. Your contract is with the operator, through the platform.

We have no connection with any estate or grower, with the CIVA, with the Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg, with the Musée Unterlinden, with the tourist offices of Strasbourg or Colmar, or with any of the villages these tours stop in.

How tours get listed

Operators cannot pay for placement, position or a badge. A badge on a card is a measured claim: Top rated only on a tour rated 4.9 or higher, Best seller only on the tour with the most reviews, Best value only on the cheapest. Some operators sell several different days, and each appears on its own because each is separately bookable and priced.

Two of Ophorus's days are listed on both platforms and so appear twice here, once with each platform's own fare — the same four hours are $114 on one and $149 on the other. Both are shown because both are separately bookable, and the cheaper of each pair is the one carded on the homepage.

The featured tours at the top of the homepage are three different days: the most-booked short run on the Wine Route out of Strasbourg with the tastings in the fare, the most-reviewed village day out of Colmar, and an afternoon at one family estate with a cellar, a tasting and a meal.

Prices, ratings and how current they are

Prices, star ratings and review counts belong to the operators and were taken from their own listings on 20 September 2026. They move, and the figure at checkout is the one that counts. Every tour fare is quoted in US dollars because that is the currency the listings were captured in; nothing is converted at an exchange rate. All but one fare is per person. The private day by Tesla is priced per group, for up to four people.

The sight prices we print are in euros, as each sight publishes them. The castle's prices, hours, last entry and shuttle come from haut-koenigsbourg.fr; the museum's from musee-unterlinden.com; the appellations, the grand crus and the grape varieties from the CIVA at vinsalsace.com; and the route's own figures — 1953, more than 170 km, 119 communes, Marlenheim to Thann — from the regional tourist board at visit.alsace. Where a detail comes from an operator's listing, such as a meeting point, a group size, an age limit or what is poured, it belongs to that tour.

Four more sources carry the planning pages. Every temperature, rainfall, sunshine and frost figure is Météo-France's 1991-2020 climate sheet for Colmar-Meyenheim, with Strasbourg-Entzheim used only for comparison. The 2026 Christmas market dates are the Colmar tourist office's own. The village detail comes from Les Plus Beaux Villages de France and from the Kaysersberg valley tourist office. Distances are straight-line kilometres calculated from the commune centre points published in the French government's own commune register, and they are labelled as straight-line wherever they appear.

What we deliberately do not publish

• What the tasting costs at the cave. The four-village day from Colmar excludes the tasting and sells it on the spot. Its listing gives no figure, so neither do we.
• What the optional tasting costs on the Riquewihr walk. It is an option at checkout and the listing prices it only there.
• The 2026 harvest dates. We found no official date for the Alsace appellations when we checked. Travellers' reports of the picking are shown as theirs.
• Drive times beyond the listings' own. Every drive depends on the route each operator takes and on the day of the week. Where a distance is useful we give the straight line between two commune centres instead, and say so.
• A 2026 date for the Strasbourg Christmas market. The city's own Christmas site still shows the 2025 edition. Every 2026 date we print for a market is one the Colmar tourist office has already published.
• Estate opening hours. Every grower keeps its own calendar; check its website.
• "The oldest wine route in France." One listing says it. The regional tourist board publishes "one of the oldest", which is what we write.
• A Travellers' Choice badge. No listing in this capture carries that award, so it does not appear anywhere on this site.
• Listing claims the sources contradict. One tour's booking URL ends with the words "and Alsace Wine Tasting" while neither its inclusions nor its overview mentions wine at all; we say it does not pour. Another promises in its highlights that you will sample Crémant, Gewurztraminer and Riesling, and excludes the tasting in the same listing; we say you buy it at the cave. A third quotes skip-the-line tickets "for 2" on a fare that buys a group of up to four; ask the operator which it is.