"A fold of rolling hills and river valleys studded with woods and forests, vineyards and hamlets - a beautiful countryside for exploring on foot."

Alsace

It is not unusual for Provençal-blue skies to remain almost continuously throughout the summer: where better then, to walk through the wine trails of northern Europe,

Auvergne

Combined with quality regional cooking and well-kept village hotels, this is rural France at its best; perfect then for a Winetrails holiday to remember.

Bordeaux

"The point of drinking wine is ... to taste sunlight trapped in a bottle, and to remember some stony slope in Tuscany or a village by the Gironde." John Mortimer

Burgundy

An idyllic landscape, constantly changing, with vineyards and valleys nestling with hamlets, copses, meadows, paddocks and walled clos and, higher up, chestnut and oak forests.

Champagne

A fold of rolling hills and river valleys studded with woods and forests, vineyards and hamlets - a beautiful countryside for exploring on foot.

Loire Valley

Studded into this horticultural quilt are over 300 chateaux, covering almost 1000 years of French history.

Provence

"Drink wine, and you will sleep well.                Sleep, and you will not sin.       Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved."                                     Medieval Saying

Roussillon

Neat steep terraced vineyards of Colioure and Banyuls cascade to the sea beneath a sky that inspired Matisse: "no sky is more blue", he wrote, "than that at Collioure".