Where to Buy Wine in France | EUROtoday

3. Take a tour in a specialist wine-growing city

There are many beguiling French cities that are nearly synonymous with the wine produced within the surrounding space. Saumur within the Loire, with its fairy-tale Chateau, Cassis in Provence with all its seaside attraction and naturally, maybe most well-known of all, St Emilion, Bordeaux, with its medieval appeal.

We checked into an historic, wooden-beamed resort, earlier than taking a wine tour on which we discovered the distinction between the “terroirs” and grapes that produce St Emilion wine (complicated richness) and its Pomerol neighbour, £3000.00 per bottle of Petrus ( elegant with an excellent nostril). That afternoon, as we had been wandering round Saint-Emilion’s slender, cobbled streets, our go to to one of many wineshops was significantly extra knowledgeable and we purchased some scrumptious, if significantly inexpensive, Merlot.

4. A French market

Markets are to France what Dom Perignon is to Champagne and the great markets are superb certainly. La Foire des Hérolles, Vienne, is among the largest within the nation and has been held for over 400 years. You should buy every thing right here, from sausage to saucepans, calf’s head (boiled calves head served for lunch) to potatoes. You can even purchase nice native wine. At one stall we visited, the winemaker had come from the Loire to promote his home-grown white wine, Vouvray. We tasted it (together with a number of different clients) and ended up shopping for a case.

5. Supermarkets

There are fantastic discoveries to be present in French supermarkets. The huge ones resembling Carrefour, E Leclerc and Intermarché invariably have well-stocked and well-labeled cabinets of wine from throughout France. So, for those who’re staying in Brittany however fancy a Languedoc Picpoul, that is the place to get it. Just bear in mind to carry your personal bag. Or two. You would possibly purchase greater than you propose.