About The Vine Route
Who publishes The Vine Route, how the guides are built, and what we will not do.
The Vine Route covers France by wine region - the Languedoc, Corsica and the roads between - for people planning the trip around the vineyards rather than fitting a tasting into a city break.
How the site is built
Every region is covered as a route rather than a list: which villages are worth a night, what is drivable in a day, and when the harvest closes cellar doors to visitors. Tasting notes are deliberately absent - there are better places for those, and they are not what decides an itinerary.
Facts come from primary sources. Appellation boundaries, harvest timing and cellar-door opening are checked against the regional wine councils and the domaines themselves. Anything numeric carries the date it was checked, because a price without a date is not information. Geographic data comes from GeoNames and OpenStreetMap, photographs from Wikimedia Commons under their individual Creative Commons licences, and time zone data from the IANA database.
What we will not do
We do not accept payment for a placement, a ranking or a favourable review. Where a link earns a commission, the page carrying it says so. We do not claim to have tested something we have not: plan details and prices that come from a provider rather than from our own checking are labelled as such. And we do not publish a page to fill a gap in a keyword list.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say that we did. Email [email protected] with the page and what is inaccurate. Corrections to a specific fact are made on the page, and the update date on the page changes with them.