Barcelona to Paris With Wine!
 

My husband and I are trying to plan a trip from Barcelona to Paris (either via Car and/or Train). We want to stop in various different wine regions and stay at adorable inns. We're not too fancy and would rather spend $ on wine and food rather then accommodations.

We have about 11 days in May to accomplish seeing vineyards, beaches and both cities if possible....

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First, you should ask for removal of your other thread with a confusion title.

Second, you need a rental car if you want to drive to wineries and through the vinyards. But to avoid huge fees, you should return it before you cross the border, take the train over the border and rent a car again in France.

around Barcelona is a wine region. If you are driving northwards, Castillo Perelada (near Figueres) is a good winery which makes a lot of cava (sparkling wine).
http://www.perelada.com/en/

On the French side, you find the Languedoc wine region. It is huge and a region of mass production. The Languedoc wines have a rather bad reputation, but in the last years a few wineries have started to produce better qualities. In Beziers, there is the best wine museum in France.

There are rather simple wines grown in Provence, mostly rosés. However, there are high quality wineries to find, e.g. Chateau Unang at the slopes of Mont Ventoux.
http://www.chateau-unang.com/

Along the rivers Gard, Ardech and Cèze, Côte du Rhone grows, usually cheap and simple wines.

One of the best wine regions at all is Bourgogne, a rather large region with many subregions.

The core region is between Macon in the south and Dijon in the north. Near Macon, you might drive through the small village Chardonnay and buy a bottle of chardonnay from Chardonnay.

The centre of the Bourgogne wine region is Beaune with its historical hospital Hospices de Beaune. Right in Beaune, make sure to experience a most unique wine tasting:
http://www.marcheauxvins.com/en/

Between Beaune and Dijon, you find all these world-famous villages and vinyards: Aloxe-Corton, Vosne-Romanée, Gevrey-Chambertin etc. Visit Clos de Vougeot - it is the place where everything started.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_de_Vougeot

If you drive further nortwards, you will reach the little town Chablis with some huge industrial wineries as well as small family-owned wineries around. A good place to stay would be the historical town Auxerre.

How many threads on the same topic do you have by now?

I forgot the beaches.

Barcelona has a city beach which is okay. North of Barcelona, you find some very beautiful beaches, including Tossa de Mar and and a few small, cliff-lined coves near Begur.

The coast of Languedoc is one extremely long sandy beach with six coastal resort towns along. There are also beaches at the Camargue. I forget to mention that in Sète and the Camargue they grow wines on sand (Vins de Pays de Sables).

APOLOGIES for the multiple posts- I found an error and it won't let me delete... but THANK you for the insight!

You can't delete the other one ( -- but you wouldn't want to since you've received some very good advice on that one. Plus it is obvious your 'error' didn't make the thread too confusing to respond.

For future reference -- when you discover a minor error like that -- just post a correction <u>on that same thread</u>, otherwise you end up with dueling threads.

(If a thread is REALLY a problem and needs to be deleted - not this case - click the triangle and ask moderators to delete it.)