The red wine made in the province of Beaujolais, to the north of Lyon, is usually drunk young – within just a few weeks of bottling. Officially Beaujolais of the current year goes on sale on the third Thursday in November. On that day all the stores, cafés and bars have signs declaring “New Beaujolais is here” (“Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrivé”). During the following week Frenchmen will quaff it by the gallon at endless parties and will discuss whether Beaujolais really deserves the title “Best wine” or whether it is just a good marketing ploy for selling fermented wine juice before it turns to vinegar.

Many people from all over the world love Paris and often visit this amazing city. It is popular by lots of historical and tourist attractions. But only few of us really know some corners that hidden from tourists’ eyes and unusual places of this ancient town. We won’t tell you about Louvre, the main tour or French Disneyland. We will open a mystery world of unknown Paris.

1. Everybody knows that France is a country of wine and cheese, but almost nobody knows anything about the Waters’ St. (Rue des Eaux), which is a little wine world. The Passy abbey on this street is rather popular by it’s thermal springs, but favorite Louis XIII’s wine cellars were found here only few years ago by one of the restaurant hosts. He transformed them into a wine museum where tourists could find ancient bottles and wineglasses, wax figures of monks and their tools and taste rare kinds of wine and cheese, as well.

Rue des Eaux & Musee du Vin

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