Twice a year the Independent Wine Makers Fair (Salon des Vignerons Indépendants) takes place in Paris.
It's quite an event, and the occasion for amateur wine connoisseurs like me to discover small estates that are hardly sold on the mainstream wine market.
I went there with a couple of friends to experience the frenzy of tasting wines from 9am to 5 pm in a gigantic garage-like hall that held approximately 1000 wine makers.
We started out spitting our wine, but by 2pm we had completely forgotten all about our spitting cups. So I'm not sure my judgment on the last wines we tasted is totally accurate...
In fact, I realized the following morning that I had bought 3 times as much wine past that time.
Unfortunately, I don't think this is because we got lucky and found the best estates towards the end.
