After enjoying the wine routes and little villages of the Alsace region we decided to wind along another wine route a little further west and this time embarked on the Route des Grands Crus,<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/routes-des-grands-crus-a-beautiful-burgundy-wine-route-from-dijon-to-beaune/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>
We spent a few weeks exploring the picture-book villages, towering chateaus, ancient wineries and stunning countryside in the Alsace in early August and found the multi-cultural area captivating. If the Alsace region in France<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/amazing-alsace-and-the-timbered-towns-of-colmar-strasbourg-ribeauville-and-keysersberg/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>
Piedmont is Italy’s second largest region and is a big wine-producing area with approximately 45,000 hectares under vine. The name, Piedmont, translates to foot of the mountains, and the mountains form a backdrop to<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/lapping-up-a-little-luxury-on-lake-maggiore-and-the-borromean-islands/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>