Beyond the named fairs, 30-plus smaller village wine festivals run across the Alsace Wine Route from July to October. The Alsace Destination Tourisme calendar publishes the current year's schedule village by village.
Tip: Use the Alsace Wine Route calendar to plan around lesser-known village fairs in Dambach-la-Ville, Riquewihr, Andlau and others; the small festivals are quieter and more local than Colmar.
Harvest festival in the wine town of Barr, free to enter, with the town counting more than 15,000 visitors on the Sunday alone. The Friday evening election of the Reine des Vendanges at the Hôtel de Ville is followed on Saturday by a flea market and a gala concert, and on Sunday by a parade of floats covered in dahlias.
Wine fair run by the BTS students in wine, beer and spirits sales of the Rouffach viticultural school, held on the third weekend of November. The 2026 edition is the 38th, with a film-festival theme, entry at 9 euros and a lunch menu on both days by reservation.
Alsace's headline wine fair, held at Colmar Expo for ten days every summer. The 2026 edition is the 77th, 31 July to 9 August, with 500-plus cuvees in the wine pavilion and a major concert festival.
Tip: Buy day-pass tickets ahead online; the wine pavilion is best mid-afternoon before the evening concerts pull in the crowds, and the concert big-ticket nights sell out months early.
Ribeauville's growers turn the medieval centre into an open-air wine fair across a July weekend, with a pouring marquee, costumed parades and the village's Geisberg, Kirchberg and Osterberg Grand Cru estates.
Tip: Combine the fair with a daytime visit to neighbouring Hunawihr or Riquewihr to taste at calmer cellars; book a Ribeauville room months ahead since the village fills.
A two-day wine fair in the small Haut-Rhin village of Pfaffenheim, with the cooperative cave and independent growers pouring at long tables along the main street. The 2026 edition runs 10 to 11 July.
Tip: Pfaffenheim's Schneckenberg and Steinert vineyards sit above the village; pair the fair with a short hike up before the afternoon pouring starts.
Bergheim runs its Fete du Gewurztraminer across a July weekend in the walled-village centre, with growers pouring varietal flights focused on the signature aromatic. Year on year on the wine-route calendar.
Tip: Bergheim is one of the prettiest walled wine villages on the route; come early in the day to walk the ramparts before the festival crowd builds.
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