Festival · Paris
Vendanges de Montmartre
Paris' only harvest festival (since 1934) celebrates Montmartre's secret vineyard, the Clos Montmartre, producing just 1,500 bottles yearly — 400,000 visitors converge for wine, cheese and chaos in October.
What to do there
Wine bars and wineries nearby
- Wine bar Bar Hemingway: Where Writers Drank Stars Hemingway allegedly liberated this Ritz bar from the Nazis in 1944 — 25 intimate seats where legend drinks dry martinis under sepia light.
- Winery Paris Natural Wine Bar Crawl Oberkampf's wine bar crawl winds through Aux Deux Amis (vintage, tapas), La Buvette (Alsace & Sologne natural), Septime La Cave (vin orange), Le Dénicheur (Roussillon & Sicily till 2am)—East Paris' natural wine revolution in one vibrant neighborhood.
- Winery Paris: Le Verre Volé Origin Story Le Verre Volé ("the stolen glass") pioneered natural wine bars in Paris since 2000—Canal Saint-Martin's 10th arrondissement hybrid of wine shop + bistro sparked a trend across Paris of natural, funky, alive wines in neighborhood haunts.