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Reserve a wine walk in the Latin Quarter, Montamrtre or the Marais with one of our sommeliers or wine experts. Tours start at 3:30pm and last about 3hrs visit 3 local bars for a tasting at each.

Nowhere in the world will you find at easy reach such a variety of French wines.

In Paris, with the help of a few basic rules and methodology, combined with your will and curiosity to explore the unknown, you can taste a myriad of little known French wines, from small appellations, from many different regions and sub-regions, rare grape varieties. Natural wines made without chemical treatments, most of which you will never have the opportunity to taste in your home country.

You may have stayed in Paris several times, and have walked past the rich opportunities the city offers to wine lovers.

This is time to correct the omission! Our wine promenade has one goal: To help you enter the many wine venues in Paris and exercise your curiosity, open your palate on your own and without outside help.

All you need are a few basic rules :
1. When you walk into a wine bar, stick to the counter: This is the best place to begin. First, this is where you enjoy best the ambiance of the place, the waiter coming and going, the view on both sides of this counter gives you an easy access to the soul of the place. Then, this is a prime spot to quietly look at the wine list of the blackboard where the different wines, are listed with their respective prices by the glass, by the “pichet” (50 cl), or by the bottle.

2. Take your time to decipher the names of the domains, appellations, regions and other clues that can address to your knowledge of French wines. If you speak some French, you may ask more easily to the waiter, when you stand at the counter, about the grape variety, the region where the wine comes from. Don't hesitate to show a map (like the one included here) to have the wine region pointed to you. The waiter will also show the bottle label if you ask for.

3. If you don't speak French, and want to drink, say, a white wine, don't forget that grape variety names are often the same in French and in your home country : So, if you want to taste a "Chenin Blanc", or a "Chardonnay", just ask for it , or write it on a piece of paper . "By the glass" is "Au verre" in French. Don't hesitate to trust the waiter on what is the best white or red to taste today. Ask for the bottle, take a pen and write down the estate's name and address, the cuvée , year , all the details. It may help you find the bottle in a wine store later, if the wine bar does not sell bottles to go, or find more information about the estate and its wines on the internet. In some wine bars, you can buy bottles to go (“pour emporter", in French). Don't be afraid to ask and make mistake: People will appreciate that you are eager to discover and sample what they have to offer.