About This Experience

Two kings lived in the Marais, and their courtiers planted the neighbourhood with mansions; this walking tour reads that history through a wine glass, from a hidden vineyard in the Joseph Mignaret park to a pair of blind tastings that end in one of the quarter's best wine shops. The walk starts at 10 Rue des Rosiers, in the heart of the Marais, and immediately goes somewhere most visitors never find: the park vineyard, a living remnant of the wine city Paris used to be. From there the route crosses the old Roman road that linked the Bastille to the Louvre, pauses in a medieval alley, and threads between the aristocratic mansions built by nobles who wanted to live near the king. The tastings are structured as games: two blind tastings with nibbles, the first a sparkling wine, the second, held in a wine shop, a pair of natural, organic or biodynamic wines. Tasting blind is the great equalizer, beginners and connoisseurs guess side by side, and it teaches more about your own palate in an hour than a year of label-reading. Between pours, the pairing board keeps pace: rustic fermented bread, exquisite cheeses and seasonal vegetables, the honest food that natural wine was made to meet. The Marais rewards this kind of attention. Its streets survived Haussmann's renovations, which makes it the best-preserved slice of pre-modern Paris, and walking it with a storyteller, glass in hand, restores the neighbourhood to what it was: royal, mercantile, thirsty and alive. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the tour makes it easy to fit around a Paris trip, and your place is confirmed instantly online through Wine Trails, booked direct with the operator, no middleman markup. It is also simply a superb way to structure an afternoon in the Marais: the route delivers the quarter's essential streets and stories in one arc, with tastings as punctuation, so even companions who care more about history than wine leave satisfied. Comfortable shoes and an appetite for cheese are the only preparation required. Every visitor walks the Marais; almost none of them taste it. Two blind pours, a hidden vineyard, a Roman road and a wine shop finale: this is the quarter as the kings' sommeliers would have wanted you to meet it.

Meeting Point

10 Rue des Rosiers, Paris Paris, Île-de-France, 75004, FR

10 Rue des Rosiers

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Cancellation Policy

Free cancellation up to 24000 hours before. 100% charge within 24 hours of start time.