Decision
Choosing an Alsace Wine Tour: Half Day, Full Day, Private or Walking
Every format side by side: hours, tastings, group sizes, children, the castle and the cost of an hour on the ground. Then our pick by traveller.
Alsace Wine Guides
These are the long reads for the choices you make before an Alsace Wine reservation. Which format suits you? How does a day on the route spend its hours? Can you do it without a tour, what does it cost, and when should you go?
Start with choosing a format if you have not picked one, or with the prices guide if your budget is fixed. The blog answers single questions in fewer words.
Itinerary
One Day on the Alsace Wine Route, Hour by Hour
Where a day out of Strasbourg or Colmar spends its hours: each village, the cellar, lunch and the castle, and what to cut if you run short.
On your own
Doing the Alsace Wine Route Without a Tour
Driving it yourself, the train and the open-top bus, cellar doors, the castle shuttle, and the days when a guided tour costs you less.
Prices
What an Alsace Wine Tour Costs, and What the Price Leaves Out
Every fare in one table, what each one covers and what you still pay on the day: the tasting, the castle, lunch and tips.
Seasonal
The Alsace Wine Year: Harvest, Christmas and the Quiet Months
What the vineyard looks like in each season, the harvest, the Christmas markets, the bus season and what closes on 25 December.
The villages are on things to do, the grapes on the vineyards page, and every tour on Alsace Wine Tours.