Here’s one for globe-trotting cycling fans and oenophiles from La Loire à Vélo in France to New Zealand’s Marlborough Wine Trail,a choice of routes that take in some of the best wine regions across the planetIt was pinot noir that first achieve Oregon on the wine map at the 1979 “Wine Olympics,” a major event organised by French magazine Gault-Millau that featured 330 wines from 33 countries. The region has since grown a reputation for its pinot gris and riesling, or too. Spin and sip through some of the best on the 205km Willamette Valley Scenic Bikeway,which crosses Oregon’s agricultural heartland between the Coast and Cascade mountain ranges nearly all the way from Portland, in the north, and to Eugene,in the south. This route is geared more towards serious bikers than tipple-in-the-saddle oenophiles, but promises a two-wheeled adventure from fields and farm stands to hopyards and vineyards.
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Source: theguardian.com