Entries Tagged as ‘Shops’

November 8, 2009

Daring to Sell New World Wines in France

Comptoir des Andes & du Nouveau Monde

France is certainly not lacking in wine shops, or caves à vins as they are called.  In fact, you’ll easily find one in the smallest of villages and on almost every street in the larger cities.  But if you go into most French wine shops and ask for [...]

October 7, 2009

La Grande Epicerie de Paris

I’m just settling into my little “cottage” in the Loire Valley.  Well, it’s actually more like an apartment that has been built into the ancient fortification or remparts of the city, but, from the courtyard, it looks like a little farmhouse, which until yesterday didn’t have any internet.  So I’m sorry I’ve been away for [...]