25 Dolce Tempo

E-BIKING

FRANCE

BERLIN

• Explore the countryside on dedicated bike paths through vine-laced hills and the Vosges forest • Visit one of the oldest Maisons de Champagne and the hallowed burial grounds of Dom Pierre Pérignon • Learn about the methods used by local wine merchants in lost-in-time Alsatian villages • Savor two-starred Michelin cuisine at Auberge de l’Ill and a private dinner and Champagne pairing at a popular Champagne house • Cruise down the Avenue de Champagne, where turreted mansions and neoclassical villas are built over miles of underground passages storing prestigious bubbly Pedal past half-timbered houses, sleepy canals and forested hills to acclaimed wineries. Between the landscapes, the cuisine and the hospitality, glasses here are always more than half full. Sparkling Champagne & the Alsace Wine Route Champagne & Alsace

PARIS

Reims

Champillon

Hautvillers

Marlenheim

Strasbourg

Epernay

Obernai

Ottrott

GERMANY

Black Forest

Vosges Mountains

Riquewihr

Illhaeusern

Rhine River

Eguisheim

WHERE YOU’LL STAY

6 Days • Activity Levels 1–3 • Premiere Hotels From $6,599 to $7,199 per person double occ. o \ Search AS1B on backroads.com

Royal Champagne Hôtel & Spa • 2 nights Hostellerie des Châteaux • 1 night Hôtel des Berges • 2 nights

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