Food on
the go
Pick a changing backdrop to your
meal and your drinks with these
gastronomic experiences that
take place on the moveRenowned for its rieslings and
gewürztraminers, Alsace is also
home to a 105-mile wine route
along which more than 1,000
vignerons offer tastings. Hit up the 66-year-old Route des Vins
in a vehicle almost as old as the road itself: a grape-green 1970s
VW camperƺ$0-+˅..Ƣ4',-Ƥ4 0*-2Ɵ$0ƻ. For a full day’s tour,
setting off from Strasbourg, you’ll sample a selection of vintages
and food including kougelhopf (Alsace’s answer to panettone
raisin bread) and stop by vineyards and half-timbered medieval
villages. The next day, banish any vestiges of a hangover with
Strasbourg’s hearty cuisine, cosying up in winstubs (Alsatian
taverns) like Au Pont Corbeau, whose menu includes dishes
such as choucroute: steamed cabbage with sausages.
ARRIVERyanair flies from Stansted to Strasbourg between April
and October(from 90; ryanair.com).
STAYRooms at Cour du Corbeau – one of Europe’s oldest
hotels – are reached off higgledy-piggledy wooden balconies
(from £145; cour-corbeau.com).1
Explore Alsace
on a vintage
wine-mobile