Trail Name: Sentier Viticole des Grands Crus (also known as the Perles du Vignoble)
Trail type: Mid-distance hiking circuit; mostly paved, some hard-packed gravel; very well-maintained and well-marked.
Length: Total – 17 km/10.5 miles
Convenient to: Colmar, Alsace, France
Marking: Mostly gold letters on brown wooden background
Continue reading Sentier Viticole des Grands Crus: Trail in a Nutshell
Another day and another hike in France, but this one was an extraordinary outing, providing a multitude of sensory memories to savor!
Gastronomic hiking has become very popular in Alsace – and why not? Eating is one of the country’s favorite social activities: The food is excellent, the wines divine, and the company generally convivial. Alsace this season offered well over a dozen. The one I participated in, set around the attractive town of Barr, offered all three: a 7-kilometer (4 mile) hike that included flavorful Alsatian food, a variety of well-balanced local wines, and plenty of joie de vivre among the participants.
