The Best Wine Bars in Paris

Do you want to like nat­ur­al and bio­dy­nam­ic wines but you are afraid of com­ing out to skep­ti­cism and deri­sion by wine snobs who think sediement is not-so-chic? Fear not, you won’t be shunned at A Lot of Wine. (Or in le Marais in gen­er­al…) Out of the clos­et and into a deep selec­tion of some of Paris’ most inter­est­ing wines we go. The Edi­tor of this esteemed pub­li­ca­tion is nev­er not impressed, or at least intrigu­ied by Jean-Noel and Bap­tis­te’s tal­ents for find­ing tru­ly unique bot­tles — that’s why they are at the top of the list. That, and a tru­ly rare phe­nom­e­non (at least in Paris): I always make a new friend here if I linger. My the­o­ry is that the pro­pri­etors set the tone (here, it’s unpre­ten­tious and adven­tur­ous) and the clien­tele fol­lows, cre­at­ing a live­ly and friend­ly scene even in a neigh­bor­hood sat­u­rat­ed with wine bars (most of whom are not full all the time, I sus­pect due to the reverse of this expe­ri­ence…). Let ‘pet-nat’ (that’s petil­lant nat­ur­al or sparkling nat­ur­al) wines be your new BFF just a few min­utes from the Notre Dame. One of my favorite, laid-back out­door seat­ing areas for the sum­mer, just across from the Riv­er Seine and and the very bot­tom of the food­ie/­fash­ion/­Jew­ish/his­to­ry-nerd le Marais quarter.