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France spends billions a year on wine - a venue beneath the streets of Paris wants to show you why
euronews (in English)
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15/07/2024
Les Caves du Louvre in Paris was once a wine cellar supplying royalty.
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Deep beneath the streets of Paris is a hidden world.
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These are Les Caves du Louvre, an underground network of cellars and tunnels that were built
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hundreds of years ago for King Louis XIV.
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Back in its heyday, the cellars were the home of one of the 21 wine suppliers to the king,
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and the subterranean passages were essential for discreetly keeping him supplied.
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These days, the wine cellars host wine tasting events and have an ample stock for sale.
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So the cellars that are below us currently, they were built by André Henault to store
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the wine for the king.
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It was built in the 18th century, and to help facilitate the delivery of the wine to the
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king, he built two tunnels.
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One of the tunnels was to transport wine from the Seine River, because at that time there
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was no trains or cars, the easiest way to transport wine was by boat, and then there
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was a second tunnel that was from here directly to the Louvre, where the king was living.
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France may have got rid of its monarchy, but it's kept its passion for wine.
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Last year, it produced an estimated 46 million hectolitres of the stuff, according to the
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French Ministry of Agriculture.
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Regions like Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne are renowned for their wine production, but
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the rest of the world has barely scratched the surface of what France has to offer.
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Most people don't know that we have over 850 grape varieties that are indigenous to us
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in France, and we have over 70,000 wineries.
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Each winemaker will have a different interpretation of the grape varieties and of their terroir,
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their region.
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Retail sales of wine in France top 4.6 billion euros a year, with the average person drinking
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47 litres of it, according to the data analysis firm Statista.
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These caves may no longer stock royal wine, but they're very much open for business, and
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have been transformed into a place where people can come and sample French wines and learn
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about their history.
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