Regions
Five
Champagne, Alsace, Burgundy, Jura & Luxembourg Moselle.
French Wine Tour · Travel planning
Planning a wine journey through France — and exploring our roots.
A living plan for the trip — the regions, the wineries, and the routes still being weighed.
This is where the trip gets planned — somewhere to research the regions, weigh up the candidate routes, pin down the wineries and the places to stay, and trace the family roots two of the travellers have along the way. Nothing's locked in yet; the routes under consideration are below, side by side.
Routes
Three
Candidates compared — none chosen yet.
Season
Autumn
Harvest & the fall light.
Format
Living wiki
Updated as the plan takes shape.
§ 01Choose your route
Three candidate routes through these regions — each with its own pace, transport and base towns. Compare them and pick the one that fits; nothing's locked in yet.
Contender
The Classic Loop
Balanced, classic, car-free
Champagne · Alsace · Burgundy
See the route
Contender
The Open Road
Self-drive, an ancestral start and a Jura finish
Champagne · Burgundy · Jura
See the route
Contender
The Three-Country Loop
Across three borders, car-free
Champagne · Mosel · Alsace
See the route
§ 02Explore by region
Champagne
The sparkling-wine country around Épernay — grand maisons, chalk cellars, and the Avenue de Champagne.
ExploreAlsace
France's most storybook wine road: half-timbered villages from Marlenheim to the Vosges foothills.
ExploreBurgundy
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and the climats — the Route des Grands Crus from Dijon to Beaune.
ExploreJura
Savagnin and vin jaune aged under a veil of yeast, Comté cellars and cliff-top villages — the self-drive route's southern detour.
ExploreLuxembourg Moselle
A 42 km Crémant valley from Schengen to Wasserbillig — free transport, a flat riverside cycle path, and the easiest car-free wine-hopping in Europe, just across the river from Trier.
Explore§ 03Family heritage
Two of the travellers have ancestral roots in these regions — the Alsace villages especially. Whichever route we choose, the trip doubles as a homecoming.