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Alsace

Half-timbered villages, the oldest wine route in France — and a table that speaks two languages.

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The region

Two countries fought over this valley for a thousand years. They were right to.

France and Germany traded Alsace back and forth for centuries, and the wine, the food and the fairy-tale villages carry both accents at once. The Grand Cru slopes above the Route des Vins are still worked by families who have held the same hillside since before Riquewihr had a name — and we know which cellar door to knock on, and who answers it.

450 years — the oldest Christmas market51 Grand Cru vineyards170 km of Wine Route30 fortified castles
Haut-Koenigsbourg castle above the Alsace plain
A thousand years — on the line between two worlds

History written on a border.

A pink-sandstone fortress watching the whole plain of Alsace — claimed, burned, rebuilt by a Kaiser, returned to France. Below it, villages that changed country four times in seventy-five years without once changing character.

We walk it with the people who live it — a private hour at Haut-Koenigsbourg before the gates open, a cellar held by the same family for twelve generations, the facades of Strasbourg read by a historian who knows what each beam means.

Oak barrels resting in an Alsatian cellar
Wine, oak, and no apology

The Alsatian table.

You don't drink in Alsace. You sit down with it.

A caramelised-onion tart on a crème base

The winstub

Flammekueche
Crème fraîche, onions, lardons — crackling from a wood oven.
Baeckeoffe
Three meats, one sealed dish, a whole morning in the oven.
The table you share
Winstubs seat you with strangers. By dessert, they aren't.
A glass of white wine held against sunlit vines

The seven grapes

Riesling
Dry, mineral, built for the table — not the shelf.
Gewurztraminer
Roses and lychee; nothing else tastes like it.
Crémant d'Alsace
The bubbles Champagne keeps an eye on.
Choucroute garnie with crisp pork and potatoes

The hearty & the proud

Choucroute garnie
Sauerkraut, three smoked meats, Riesling on the side.
Munster fermier
Washed-rind from the Vosges — served with cumin, no apologies.
Foie gras de Strasbourg
Made here since the 17th century.
A sugar-dusted kougelhopf with its fluted mould

The sweet & the season

Kougelhopf
Baked in fluted clay, dusted at dawn.
Bredele
Christmas cookies — every family guards its own recipe.
Vin chaud, December
At a market that has run for 450 years straight.
Autumn vineyards rolling down to an Alsatian village
Every Alsace we design is different

No two of our journeys are the same. Tell us yours.

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Colmar's Christmas market glowing between half-timbered facades
Colmar, in December

Centuries of the same midwinter magic.

Among the oldest Christmas markets in France — wooden chalets, mulled wine, and streets that seem to have been built for exactly this.

A sketch of what we\'d build you

Journeys we've made here.

Six we've designed here. Open one to see how it goes.

Riquewihr's main street lit at blue hour
A golden anniversary
The village, after the day-trippers leave
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Sunrise over vineyard rows near Colmar
A quiet morning
The rows, before the mist lifts
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A cobbled lane in Eguisheim with flower boxes
A family pilgrimage
The village their grandmother left
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A Christmas-decorated stone well in Eguisheim
A winter escape
December, done properly
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Haut-Koenigsbourg at dusk above forested hills
A milestone birthday
The fortress, at closing time
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An autumn forest mirrored in a still Vosges lake
A mountain day
The lake above the vines
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Marie Tesson, founder
A travel house — not a tourism office

Why us.

A tourism office hands you a map. We hand you to the people who are Alsace — the twelfth-generation winemaker, the fromager in the Munster valley, the family whose winstub has never needed a printed menu. Twenty-five years of friendships open doors no brochure can.

iTwenty-five years of real relationshipsNot suppliers on a commission — friends who open their own doors.
iiAround fifty journeys a year, never off-the-shelfEach built from nothing. We turn most inquiries away.
iiiMarie reads every inquiry herselfA real conversation, and a reply within two days — or nothing at all.
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Tell us the Alsace you want to feel.

A cellar of century-old foudres, a December market at dusk, a Grand Cru slope at sunrise.

Marie reads every inquiry herself and writes back within two days.

No itinerary · No brochure · A real conversation
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