Winter wine weekend: Riquewihr
Wander through Riquewihr’s thirteenth-century Dolder gateway on a summer’s weekend and you could be forgiven for thinking you’d strayed by mistake into some sort of medieval theme park. Crowds throng its cobbled Grand’rue lined with polychrome timber-framed houses, intricate wrought iron signs and elegant oriel windows. In the shop windows, plastic storks jostle for space with decorated pottery and green-stemmed wine glasses. Sickly sweet smells of waffles and candyfloss fill the air.