The apartment is on the first floor of a 17th century wine grower?s house which has been completely renovated while preserving its Alsace charm and authenticity The house is on the southern walls of Riquewihr a beautiful Medieval town The walls date from 1291 In the heart of the Alsace vineyards in the foothills of the Vosges mountains Pays de Ribeauville and Riquewihr enjoys a great diversity of landscapes and local characteristics This diversity is expressed in plain vineyard and mountains all in a territory of 16 communesThe most beautiful wine growing villages on the Wine Route: Beblenheim Bennwihr Mittelwihr Riquewihr Hunawihr ZellenbergThe wine growing towns of Bergheim Ribeauville Rodern Rorschwihr and Saint-Hippolyte two mountain communes still retaining their authenticity and simplicity: Aubure and Thannenkirch and three communes situated on the Alsace plain in the Ried -a mosaic landscape created by man and characterised by alternating hay meadows reed marshes small oak or hornbeam woods and copse: Guemar Illhaeusern and Ostheim
