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Main wine regions
Places to visit
All 311 places Winery · Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux Abbaye de Cîteaux Landmark Avenue de Champagne: The $3 Billion Street Winery · Aÿ Bollinger Winery · Saint-Emilion Chateau Ausone Winery · Saint-Emilion Château Cheval Blanc Winery · Sauternes Château d'Yquem Winery · Courthézon Château de Beaucastel Winery · Vougeot Château du Clos de Vougeot Winery · Pessac Château Haut-Brion
Wine trails
18 stops · 1-2 weeks Alpe d'Huez & Les 2 Alpes Twenty-one hairpins. The most famous climb in cycling, where Pantani attacked and Hinault suffered. Alpe d'Huez is a shrine to the Tour de France — but the wine culture surprises everyone who arrives expecting only lycra. 18 stops · 1-2 weeks Chamonix Valley Wine Trail 18 stops · 1-2 weeks French Riviera Rosé Route From Monaco's borrowed glamour to the hidden AOC above Nice, from monks making wine on islands to the families who invented premium rosé. This is where beach club culture was born - and you'll finally understand why that pale pink wine costs €200 a magnum. 18 stops · 1 week Val d'Isère & Tignes: Olympic Wine Jean-Claude Killy won three gold medals here at the 1968 Olympics. The Face de Bellevarde is still one of the most feared race slopes in the world. Val d'Isère and Tignes share 300km of skiing named after a living legend. 14 stops · 1 week Champagne Part IV: The Aube Adventure 120km south of Reims lies the Aube - where Saint Bernard brought Pinot Noir from Burgundy, where a prison that held Carlos the Jackal just closed in 2023, where cult producers show you their cows before their wine, and where Louis XIV's stonemasons discovered the only still rosé in Champagne. This is where enthusiasts graduate to obsessives. 13 stops · 1-2 weeks Courchevel: Michelin Stars on the Slopes Three Michelin stars at Le 1947. Two more at Le Chabichou. An altiport where private jets land on the mountainside. Courchevel 1850 is the most expensive ski resort on earth, and its wine culture matches. 12 stops · 1-2 weeks Burdigala to Narbo The Romans connected Burdigala (Bordeaux) to Narbo (Narbonne) via the Garonne River and ancient trade routes. This epic journey traverses France's wine heartland, from Saint-Émilion's Roman-era vineyards through Gaillac, Toulouse, and the medieval fortress of Carcassonne to the Mediterranean coast. 11 stops · 1 week Méribel: Heart of the Three Valleys The heart of the Three Valleys — the world's largest connected ski area at 600km. Founded in 1938 by a British officer who wanted traditional Savoie architecture after Megève got too fashionable. Every building uses local stone and wood. 10 stops · 1-2 weeks The Rhône Corridor The Rhône was Rome's superhighway into Gaul. Lugdunum (Lyon) was the capital of all Gaul. This adventure follows the river south through the legendary slopes of Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, and Hermitage — where Romans first terraced impossibly steep hillsides to create some of the world's greatest Syrah.
25 more trails
- Val Thorens: Europe's Highest Wine10 stops
- Via Domitia10 stops
- Champagne Part II: The Grower Revolution8 stops
- Megève: Jazz, Wine & Mont Blanc8 stops
- Mosella Valley8 stops
- Champagne Part III: The Meunier Mystery6 stops
- Loire Roman Trail6 stops
- Savoie Trail6 stops
- Champagne Pinot Noir Villages Trail5 stops
- French Pinot Corners Trail5 stops
- Haute Savoie Circuit Wine Trail5 stops
- Jura Heights Wine Trail5 stops
- Royal Champagne Road: Chapter VII - The Ritz Era5 stops
- Royal Champagne Road: Chapter X - The Eastern Frontier5 stops
- Royal Champagne Road: Chapter XII - Champagne & Sport5 stops
- Burgundy's Grand Cru Route4 stops
- Champagne's Avenue of Bubbles4 stops
- Monks' Trail — Cîteaux to Clos de Vougeot4 stops
- Royal Champagne Road: Chapter I - The Royal Court4 stops
- Bordeaux Left Bank Run3 stops
- Côte de Beaune Pinot Trail3 stops
- Pinot Mastery Summit3 stops
- Vosne-Romanée Sacred Terroir Trail3 stops
- Côte de Nuits Grand Cru Trail2 stops
- Grand Cru Circuit2 stops
Things to do
Champagne · 54
All about Champagne
- Ambonnay: From a 1582 Cross to a Chalk CellarTour
- Aux Crieurs de Vin: The Troyes Wine TempleTasting
- Aÿ: Where Champagne Was BornTour
- Bar-sur-Aube: The Forgotten CapitalTour
- Bollinger, Aÿ: Walled Vines and a Widow's HouseTour
- Bouzy Rouge: France's Northernmost Red WineTasting
- Champagne Harvest: 120,000 Hand-PickersAdventure
- Champagne Pannier: Medieval Quarry CellarsTour
- Chartogne-Taillet: Sheep in the VineyardsTour
- Clairvaux Abbey: Prison to PilgrimageAdventure
- Coteaux Champenois: The Still Wine RevolutionTasting
- Cryptoporticus of Reims - Underground Roman GalleriesTour
- De Venoge: The King's Decree and the Empty ChairTasting
- Dom Pérignon: The Myth Is a LieTour
- Drappier: The 12th Century Cellars & Rarest GrapeTasting
- Épernay's Avenue de Champagne, Gate by GateAdventure
- Eric Taillet & The Meunier InstituteTour
- Essoyes: Where Renoir Found the LightCultural
- Faux de Verzy: The Twisted TreesAdventure
- Fleury: The First Biodynamic ChampagneTasting
- Georges Laval: Where Cousteau Changed ChampagneTour
- Hautvillers: Read the Monk's Epitaph, Not the LegendAdventure
- Krug: The $300 QuestionTour
- La Closerie: The Prévost PilgrimageAdventure
- Laherte Frères: 75 Parcels, 27 TerroirsTour
- Le Mesnil-sur-Oger: Chardonnay's TempleTasting
- Les Riceys: The Triple-AOC VillageTour
- Louis Roederer Cellars: Where Cristal BeganTour
- Marie-Courtin: The Pendulum LadyTasting
- Moët & Chandon: Napoleon's CellarTour
- Moussé Fils: The Grand Cru of MeunierTour
- Philipponnat: The Bottle in the CanalTour
- Pommery: The Widow's Art CathedralTour
- Pressoria: Champagne Through 5 SensesTour
- Reims Cathedral: Where Kings Were CrownedCultural
- Reims's Porte de Mars, Read Vault by VaultTour
- Rosé des Riceys: Louis XIV's SecretTasting
- Ruinart: A Chalk Pit as Tall as the Cathedral NaveTour
- SIDEQUEST: Champagne by BikeAdventure
- SIDEQUEST: The Arbane Grape QuestAdventure
- SIDEQUEST: The De Gaulle PilgrimageCultural
- SIDEQUEST: The Roses de Jeanne PilgrimageAdventure
- SIDEQUEST: The Widow CrawlAdventure
- SIDEQUEST: Vendangeur d'un Jour (Harvest Helper)Adventure
- Taittinger: Under the Abbey of Saint-NicaiseTour
- The Chalk Cellars of Saint-Nicaise Hill, ReimsTour
- The Cristal Story: Assassination ChampagneTour
- The Rock of the Marne: WWI American MonumentAdventure
- Tristan Hyest: The Zero-Zero RadicalTour
- Troyes: The Champagne Cork CityTour
- Vallée de la Marne: The Route They Don't MentionAdventure
- Verzenay: The Lighthouse of ChampagneTour
- Veuve Clicquot: Chalk Cellars and the Widow's ChapelTour
- Vouette et Sorbée: The Bad Boys of ChampagneTasting
Savoie · 52
All about Savoie
- Annecy lakeside wine experienceAdventure
- Bar 360 - The Budget Hack for Altitude WineTasting
- Belleville Valley Cheese Trail — Beaufort Meets Savoie WineTour
- Bench Wine with Mont Blanc ViewTasting
- Caron 3200 - Wine at Europe's Highest ResortTasting
- Cave de la Maison - Natural Wine Scholar's HideawayTasting
- Chambéry Wine Country Day TripTour
- Chamonix town center wine bar with Mont Blanc viewAdventure
- Chamonix's legendary Scandinavian après-ski barAdventure
- Champagne après-ski at the world's most glamorous ski villageAdventure
- Château La Tour de Marignan Day TripTour
- Conquer Europe's steepest piste - 80% gradient, no escapeAdventure
- Drink where seasonaires have drunk since 1948Adventure
- Escape the ski bubble for a day among the vines that make alpine wineAdventure
- Europe's Highest Resort — Wine at 2,300m Town CenterTasting
- Face de Bellevarde - Olympic Downhill to WineAdventure
- Float in 34°C water watching Mont Blanc while snow falls around youAdventure
- Flocons de Sel 3-Michelin star dinner with rare Savoie wines and Chartreuse collectionDining
- France's only Olympic ski jumps - 1992 glory, 2030 returnAdventure
- Gateway to Savoie wines where the Alps meet Lac du BourgetAdventure
- Historic cellar visit in ChambéryAdventure
- Horse-drawn sleigh to Mont d'Arbois with Rothschild wine toast at sunsetAdventure
- Hurtle through 8 underground tunnels on a 3km Grand Prix-style luge trackAdventure
- L'Atelier d'Edmond - Wine-Forward 2 Michelin StarsDining
- La Cave Emmanuel Renaut treasure hunt for pre-1970s Savoie bottlesTasting
- La Cave sur le Comptoir - The Locals' Hidden Two-Floor CellarTasting
- La Folie Douce - Europe's Highest Wine CellarTasting
- La Folie Douce Val ThorensTasting
- La Table de l'Ours - 2 Michelin Stars at Olympic DownhillDining
- La Timbale - First Season at the New Wine BarTasting
- Le 3842 - Wine at Europe's Highest RestaurantTasting
- Le Blanchot - Walk Into the Wine Cellar and ChooseTasting
- Le S Bar après-ski Savoie wine education by the fireplaceTasting
- Les Caves du Pèle - Underground Wine LoungeTasting
- Les Explorateurs - Michelin Star Altitude Wine ScienceDining
- Medieval village wine walk through 13th-century cobblestonesTour
- Megève après-ski wine bar experienceAdventure
- Michelin star without the oligarch prices—in a village that forgot to be pretentiousAdventure
- Michelin-star wine experience at world's most luxurious ski resortAdventure
- Mont d'Arbois cable car sunset with BYOB wine toast at Baroness's viewpointAdventure
- Private dinner in Four Seasons wine cellar with $233K bottle revealTasting
- Restaurant René - The 750 Reference CellarDining
- Ski + wine challenge at MorzineAdventure
- Sunrise balloon flight over Mont Blanc with champagne and fondueAdventure
- Tartiflette and wine evening in traditional chaletAdventure
- The Combe de Savoie vineyards with Mont Blanc viewsAdventure
- The only 3-Michelin-star restaurant in any Alps ski resortAdventure
- Traditional Savoyard fondue with local ApremontAdventure
- Vin sur Vin - The 1,500 Bottle CaveTasting
- Watch planes land on the world's 7th most extreme runwayAdventure
- Where every ski instructor in Courchevel ends up at midnightAdventure
- Wine at 2,738m with Mont Blanc burning gold on the horizonAdventure
Tarentaise · 23
All about Tarentaise
- 1992 Olympics Freestyle Site — Where Moguls Became OlympicTour
- Altitude Wine Lab — How 2,100m Changes Your GlassEducation
- Espace Killy Traverse — Tignes to Val d'Isère on SkisAdventure
- Europe's highest wine bar at Europe's highest ski resortAdventure
- L'Ekrin: Michelin-Starred Provençal-Savoyard Fusion with Wine PairingDining
- La Folie Douce Méribel - the legendary après-ski partyAdventure
- La Folie Douce Tignes — Après at 2,100mTasting
- La Folie Douce Val Thorens - the highest FolieAdventure
- La Fromagerie: The Apremont-Fondue Chemistry Lesson You Can EatDining
- Le Rond Point: Toffee Vodka, Crowd Surfing, and British Chaos at AltitudeAdventure
- Les Brévières — The Authentic Village Tignes ForgotTour
- Michelin-star dining in the Espace KillyAdventure
- Partajo's 500-Bottle Cave: Hidden Gems from a Sommelier Who Gives a DamnTasting
- Peter Lindsay's Legacy: Walking a War Hero's Alpine DreamTour
- Saulire Summit: Champagne at 2,710m Above the VineyardsAdventure
- Sunset Wine Walk Around Lac de TignesTasting
- The Den Bar: 37 Years of Parisian Wine Wisdom at 1,450mTasting
- The Drowned Village of Old TignesTour
- The ORIGINAL La Folie Douce - where it all beganAdventure
- Traditional Savoyard wine dinner in Méribel VillageAdventure
- Val d'Isère's legendary late-night institution since 1979Adventure
- Watch the "Prince of Gruyères" being born in mountain cavesAdventure
- Wine on the Grande Motte glacierAdventure
Burgundy · 22
All about Burgundy
- Clos de Tart: 900 Years, 4 OwnersWinery
- Clos de Vougeot Château TastingTour
- Côte de Nuits by E-Bike: Nuits to Gevrey and BackAdventure
- Decode the Monks' LegacyCultural
- Dijon University: Pilgrimage to Clone ZeroCultural
- Domaine Leroy: The 10 hl/ha MiracleWinery
- Hospices de Beaune Wine AuctionFestival
- Hospices de Beaune: Watch €18.75 Million FallFestival
- La Paulée de Meursault: Wine's Greatest BYOBFestival
- La Tâche: The Other MonopoleTour
- Meursault: The Chardonnay InterludeTour
- Napoleon's Chambertin: Walk the Emperor's VineyardTour
- Nuits-Saint-Georges: The First AOCTour
- Richebourg: The Shared LegendTour
- Romanée-Conti Vineyard VisitTour
- Romanée-Conti: Stand on Wine's Holiest GroundCultural
- Stand at the Wall of Romanée-ContiTour
- The 20-Year Cellar: Your Burgundy FutureEducation
- The Abbey Where It All BeganTour
- Volnay: The 'Feminine' PinotTour
- Vosne-Romanée: Taste What You Can TasteTasting
- Walk the Walls of Clos de VougeotTour
Oisans · 18
All about Oisans
- 21 Hairpins Wine Challenge - Tour de France legendAdventure
- Drinking extinction: Persan from the last 10 hectares on EarthTasting
- Écrins National Park — France's Wildest Wine PicnicAdventure
- Europe's highest medieval ghost town - where the Dauphin minted silverTour
- Frogs legs poached in the wine you're drinking, next to landing planesDining
- Giant wine barrel people-watching on the main streetTasting
- Grotte de Glace — Wine Tasting Inside a Glacier at 3,200mAdventure
- Historic wine cellar in cycling's cathedralAdventure
- Jandri Express — Europe's Longest Gondola to Wine at 3,200mAdventure
- La Folie Douce Les 2 Alpes — Après Where Freestyle Was BornTasting
- La Meije — The Last Great Alpine Peak to Be ClimbedAdventure
- Le Diable au Coeur — Fine Dining at 2,400m on the SlopesDining
- Natural wine + wood-fired pizza where locals actually drinkTasting
- Pic Blanc 3,330m — Wine Above the CloudsAdventure
- Sarenne — The Longest Black Run in Europe (16km) to WineAdventure
- Summer glacier wine tasting at 3,600mAdventure
- The only wine shop in the world specializing in Alpine winesEducation
- Venosc — The Secret Village Accessible Only by GondolaTour
Provence · 16
All about Provence
- Arles Arena & Van Gogh TrailTour
- Carlton Terrace Champagne HourTasting
- Château d'Esclans Garrus ExperienceTour
- Château de Bellet Grand TastingTour
- Château de Crémat Sunset TastingTour
- Château Minuty Morning TourTour
- Château Miraval Estate TourTour
- Domaines Ott: Where Rosé Became SeriousTour
- French Riviera Sunset ChampagneAdventure
- Gassin Village SunsetTasting
- Îles de Lérins: Monks, Prison & WineTour
- Les Baux-de-ProvenceAdventure
- Old Nice Wine Bar CrawlTour
- Pampelonne Beach Rosé RitualTasting
- Place des Lices Market & PétanqueCulinary
- Sénéquier SunsetTasting
Île-de-France · 12
All about Île-de-France
- Bar Hemingway: Where Writers Drank StarsTasting
- Champagne at the Ritz BarTasting
- Coco Chanel Suite: 34 Years of ChampagneCultural
- Hall of Mirrors: The Room That Ended EmpiresTour
- Jazz Age Paris: The Fitzgerald TrailCity
- Les Caves Augé: Paris's Oldest Wine ShopTasting
- Paris Champagne Bars: Drink What Kings DrankTasting
- Paris: Le Verre Volé Origin StoryTasting
- Place Vendome: Napoleon's Column at DuskCity
- Sevres: Marie Antoinette's Breast BowlsCultural
- Tour de France: Yellow Jersey ToastFestival
- Versailles Gardens: Where Kings Watched FireworksAdventure
Rhône Valley · 11
All about Rhône Valley
- Avignon - Palace of the PopesTour
- Condrieu & Château-GrilletTasting
- Côte-Rôtie - The Roasted SlopeTasting
- Crozes-Hermitage ExplorationTasting
- Hermitage Hill PilgrimageAdventure
- Lyon Gallo-Roman Museum & BouchonsTour
- Lyon Wine Bars - Presqu'île & Old TownWine bar
- Orange Roman TheatreTour
- Tain-l'Hermitage TastingsTasting
- Valence & Southern PushAdventure
- Vienne Roman Theatre & Côte-Rôtie ViewsTour