Piled picket circumstances bearing the identify of many a well-known winemaker kind the slender passage to this equally tiny store. Inside, you’ll discover these bottles from these famed names, plus lots extra not fairly in proof, to search out which you’ll need to strike up a dialog with the extraordinarily knowledgable proprietor Jean-Jacques Bailly. It’s a classicist’s choice, and also you gained’t discover the cartoonish ephemera of the pure wine scene right here, however neither is it doctrinaire. And there’s this, too: Les Caves du Marais is the form of place folks think about when considering of the prototypical and more and more legendary caviste, but in precise truth such locations hardly ever exist besides to promote both pure wine or detached industrial banalities anymore. Procuring right here is like discovering one thing you at all times imagined existed.
Sensible info
Deal with: 64 rue François Miron, 75004
Nearest transport: Saint Paul (1) or Pont Marie (7)
Hours: Closed Sunday & Monday
Phone: 01 42 78 54 64
Opinions of curiosity
Not Consuming Poison in Paris (2010) “It’s a type of claustrophobically cluttered, been-here-forever / doing-my-thing / ain’t-changing form of locations; this ethos, which from a restaurant service perspective is normally infuriating, can really be great point in a superb caviste.”
Meals Vacationer (date unknown) “It is just down the right-hand facet of the shop the place Jean-Jacques Bailly plies his commerce the place some semblance of order appears to be maintained.”
