The next morning we took a small group tour of the villages with visits to the vineyards for wine tasting starting in Herrlisheim. It was a very personal tour as there were only 5 of us and we had ample opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the wine making process. The owner was very generous allowing us to taste many of the wines she produced including some fine Grand Cru Rieslings. Next stop was the picturesque medieval town of Turckheim known for its fine wines.
After a tasting session we adjourned to a local restaurant with our fellow wine tasting companions for lunch accompanied by the obligatory grand cru Riesling.
Riquewihr our last stop is one of the most popular and beautiful of the villages in Alsace and because of this it can get very crowded during the summer. It is a well preserved medieval village hidden among vineyards and the Vosges mountains with cobbled streets dotted with half-timbered winemakers shops and tasting rooms.
It is truly like walking into a fairytale. Among the great restaurants we visited was a typically Alsatian restaurant called a 'winstub'. Traditional and regional specialities such as sauerkraut, baekeoffe and kougelhopf are served along with local wines. I highly recommend eating in a winstub when you visit Alsace. To get to Alsace we flew to Paris as there are no direct flights to this region, and boarded the train to Colmar which took about 2 and a half hours.
The train station is in walking distance to the centre of the town so we could easily walk to our accommodation. Wine tasting and picturesque fairy-tale villages Susan Stevenson 14 April Last September I spent 3 days travelling the Alsace wine route with my 2 sisters on our annual wine tasting trip.
