DuVine was built around a simple idea: cycling is the best way to experience a wine region. Founded in Boston in 1996, they run small-group luxury tours (12 guests max) through Europe’s great food and wine destinations — Tuscany, Provence, Champagne, Burgundy, Portugal’s Douro Valley, the Basque Country. The cycling routes are beautiful, but they’re frankly an excuse to explore a region through its producers, artisans, and kitchens.
You’ll stay in boutique hotels and farm estates, detour through vineyards to meet winemakers, stop at market stalls that most tourists drive past, and eat dinner in places that don’t appear in any guidebook. The guides know the territory deeply — they live there, they know the owners, they know which road is empty at 8am. For cyclists who consider food and wine as central to travel as kilometers ridden, DuVine is the benchmark.