Ribeauville

After finishing our tour of Colmar, we drove to Ribeauville, 21 km north of Colmar. It's on the Rue du Vin, a wine route that runs for 90 miles through Alsace.

Ribeauville is an adorable town with a long pedestrian street through the center of town.

Winegrowers' Fountain--located in front of the TI.

The main street in town--the Grand Rue, with the Butchers' Tower in the center of the town. The tower was built in 1290 and separates the "Old Town" from the "Middle Town."

At the top of the town are trails that lead to 3 castle ruins in the Vosges Mountains.

Town Hall is the site of the weekly market. On the day we visited, there was a book fair.

Pfifferhuss or Minstrels' Inn was built in the 17th century and once housed the town's fief-playing minstrels. The minstrels paid a tax to the lord of the town for protection.

Just outside of town (from the TI, walk south to the traffic circle) is the Cave de Ribeauville—France’s oldest winegrowers’ cooperative, founded in 1895. It has a viniculture museum and free tastings of its wines, made with all seven of the grape varieties grown in Alsace

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