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What to Drink in Paris

Paris is the best place in France to sample a
wide range of the country’s many different
wines. It’s cheapest to order wine by the carafe,
normally referred to by size: 25cl (quart), 33cl
(fillette), 50cl (demi) or 75cl (pichet, equivalent
to a bottle). Cafés and wine bars usually offer
wine by the glass – un petit blanc is a small
glass of white, a larger glass of red is un ballon
de rouge. House wine is nearly always reliable.
Red Wine
Some of the world’s finest red
wines come from the Bordeaux
and Burgundy regions, but for
everyday drinking, choose Paris’s last vineyard, near Sacré-Coeur (see p224)
from the vast range of basic
southern French or Côtes
du Rhône wines. Or try one
of the Beaujolais crus, such
as Morgon or Fleurie
from southern Burgundy,
or lighter reds from the
Loire, such as Chinon or Bordeaux châteaux Burgundy includes
Saumur-Champigny. include Margaux, which some big, strong red
makes some of the wines from the village
Distinctive bottle shapes for world’s most elegant of Gevrey-Chambertin
Bordeaux and Burgundy red wines. in the Côte de Nuits.

Beaujolais Nouveau, The Loire has very good Southern Rhône is Northern Rhône has
the fruity first taste of the red wines from the area famous for its dark, some dark, spicy red
year’s new wine, is around Chinon. They are rich red wines from wines, best aged for at
released on the third usually quite light and Châteauneuf-du-Pape, least ten years, from
Thursday of November. very dry. north of Avignon. Côte-Rôtie near Vienne.
Fine Wine Vintage Chart 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
Bordeaux
Margaux, St-Julien, Pauillac, St-Estèphe 10 8 7 8 9 7 8 6 7
Graves, Pessac-Léognan (red) 9 8 7 8 9 7 6 6 7
Graves, Pessac-Léognan (white) 7 8 7 8 9 8 7 6 7
St-Emilion, Pomerol 9 8 7 8 9 7 6 5 8
Burgundy
Chablis 9 8 9 8 9 8 7 8 8
Côte de Nuits (red) 9 7 6 7 9 7 7 6 7
Côte de Beaune (white) 9 7 7 8 9 8 7 8 8
Loire
Bourgueil, Chinon 9 8 8 7 9 7 7 8 7
Sancerre (white) 9 8 7 8 9 8 7 7 8
Rhone
Hermitage (red) 9 7 10 7 9 7 7 4 7
Hermitage (white) 9 8 10 7 9 7 6 4 8
Côte-Rôtie 8 7 8 7 9 7 6 4 7
Châteauneuf-du-Pape 9 8 9 8 9 7 6 3 7
The quality scale from 1 to 10 represents an overall rating for the year and is only a guideline

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Date 3rd August 2012
Size 125mm x 217mm