Trail Name: Vignes de l’Enclave des Papes, (AKA: Circuit 12, Circuit Est)
Trail Type: A medium distance circuit, along almost exclusively paved or hard-packed surfaces; fairly well maintained, with generic signage.
Length: 10 kilometers/6 miles
Convenient to: Valreas, Vaucluse Department, Provence Region, France
Marking: Yellow signs on a post, and yellow rectangles (Not exclusive to this particular trail)
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Trail Name: Balade Romaine dans les Vignes
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; exclusively paved, well maintained, but the route itself is only marked generically.
Length: 7.3 kilometers/4.5 miles
Convenient to: Orange, Vaucluse Department, Provence Region, France
Marking: Yellow signposts and yellow rectangles
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Trail Name: Weinrunde Malans-Jenins or Rundweg Malans
Trail Type: Medium distance; almost exclusively paved, well maintained, and very well-marked.
Length: 10.4 km/ 6 miles
Convenient to: Chur, and Bad Ragaz, Switzerland; Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Marking: Rectangular blue and white arrows with white lettering: Weinwanderweg” (and sometimes red lettering “Rundweg Malans”) (See comment below)
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Trail Name: Vom Rhein Zum Wein
Trail Type: Middle distance bicycle trail; almost exclusively paved, well maintained, and well-marked.
Length: total: 31 kilometers/19.25 miles
Convenient to: Speyer, Germany;
Marking: Profiles of Speyer cathedral and two cyclists in white, on a green rectangular background
Trail Name: Castello di Gabbiano
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; variety of surfaces from paved to hard-packed, or loose, gravel, to grass; maintained, but not marked.
Length: Total: 3.2 kilometers / about 2 miles
Convenient to: Chianti, Florence, Italy
Marking: None
Trail Name: Radwege durch Weinland Baden: Kaiserstuhl Alternative (Bike Trails through Baden Wine-land: Kaiserstuhl Alternative [Route])
Trail Type: Mid-distance trail; almost exclusively paved, (two short sections, less than a half mile total, were hard-pack surfaces), well maintained, but no consistently specific markings for the route itself.
Length: total: 49 kilometers/30 miles
Convenient to: Freiburg, Germany
Marking: No trail marking specific to this trail, and it is at times on other named trails (like the Rheintal Radweg (with a green sign and white lettering) from Malterdingen to Koenigschaffhausen)
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Trail Name: Vignoble et Chateaux
Trail Type: Mid-distance circuit; varied surface types (paved, grass, dirt, rock), with some steps to climb; fairly well-maintained trail; the route itself is usually clearly marked, except in a couple of places.
Length: Total: 10.5 kilometers/6.5 miles
Convenient to: Colmar, France
Marking: Trail name “Vignoble et Chateaux” in purple letters on white background. (Another trail name also appears on these signs when trails overlap.)
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Trail Name: Rheinterrassen route
Trail Type: Long distance; almost exclusively paved, well maintained, but the route itself is not marked.
Length: total: 50.5 km/31.5 miles
Convenient to: Mainz or Worms, Germany
Marking: Dark green and lighter green lines, and silhouetted town skyline, on a white background.
Trail Name: Entre Vignes et Patrimoine (Among Vines and Patrimony)
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; tarmac or hard-packed, well maintained, fairly well-marked, but a map will help. (Free brochure/maps available from regional tourist offices.)
Length: total: 6.5 kilometers or 8 kilometers/ 4 miles or 5 miles
Convenient to: Tours, France
Marking: Yellow lines, straight or bent to indicate direction
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Name: Wein Radreise (Wine Bike Trip)
Trail type: Long distance trail; mostly hard-packed gravel or paved, well maintained and mostly marked.
Length: about 194 kilometers/120 miles
Convenient to: Heilbronn, or Wuerzburg, Germany
Marking: White stylized bicyclist with a wine glass on green background
