Help! Alsace Wine Route 1-2 Day Itinerary

Hi Elizabeth!
Ribeauville makes a great base for two or three nights. The old medieval town is incredibly well-preserved, there are a couple chateaux above town, and. There is a wine cooperative that pours samples from dozens of the areas vintners. The Chateau du Haut-Koenigsbourg is less than 10 miles from Ribeauville.
From Ribeauville, you can bike or hike
( we hiked) to the nearby towns of Hunawihr, Riquewihr and Kaysersberg.
There are well-marked pathways through the vineyards between the towns.

Riquewihr has it’s medieval wall and many of its gates intact. Here, you can see the building where the origins of the word “gourmet.” can be traced to.
Kaysersberg is another gem of a town with its own castle.
We found many of the vintners did not have on-site wine tasting, which made the coop in Ribeauville a real plus.
Have a great trip!

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Excellent suggestion by Kenko. Be very careful wine tasting and driving.

Our Route du Vin experience only extends to Colmar, Equisheim and Kaysersberg and we loved all three. We based in Colmer for 5 nights and felt it was the right choice because it's larger. The primary focus of our trip was Christmas markets so we also did some un-wine related day trips into Germany and Switzerland - but we still drank some wine!

We stayed in Colmar for 5 nights in November 2021. In general, our party prefers red wine over white, so wine tasting in Alsace was not our main priority, but we had an amazing visit at Domaine Marcel Deiss in Bergheim. I do recommend booking ahead (easy to do via email) so that they can be ready to host you. We were there tasting and chatting for several hours and learned so much! The wines were so delicious that our party (myself and my husband, and my parents) ended up ordering two cases of wine to be shipped home :D

Just a note on wine tasting and driving - if you're used to doing wine tastings in the US, we found the "tastings" in France to be almost half-glass pours, not the two-mouthful portions that seem to be typical in the US. We did a lot of wine visits in the Burgundy area, but never more than one a day (or maybe two - one before lunch and one after - only if we weren't driving). If you do plan to to a tasting and then drive, I'd recommend making lunch plans so you have time after the tasting before getting behind the wheel.

Have fun!

Thank you all! So helpful!

So if I wanted to see Strasbourg still, would it be recommended to stay one night in Strasbourg and then 2 nights south (perhaps Colmar or Ribeauville)?

And good to know with the tastings and driving. What options are there to go to tastings and not drive?

We did a day trip to Strasbourg from Colmar and found it to be quick and easy. As part of a larger group (5 adults and 1 toddler), we weren't particularly mobile and didn't want to hassle with changing hotels for a 1 night stay. If you're ok with moving more frequently, Strasbourg is a great city and we really enjoyed our time there.

As far as tasting and not driving, I wouldn't be particularly worried about it. We solved the driving problem by scheduling wine tastings before lunch, and always buying bottles to take back with us, so the driver could enjoy them later that evening once we were back at our apartment. In France, we also saw the spit buckets used with regularity. I just wanted to let you know that we found wine tasting in France to be different to our previous US wine tasting experiences. When we went wine tasting in Oregon, for example, we visited 5 different wineries in a day (with a designated driver) because our visits were 45 minutes max and not that much wine.