75th Vendanges de Montmartre 2008

There was a time when Montmartre was a neighborhood of wine vineyards, covered in plush greens and ripe grapes.

Luckily at this time of year, Parisians and visitors get a taste of Montmartre's old time spirit. The annual Vendanges de Montmartre (Montmartre Grape Harvest Festival) turns the northern tip of Paris into a classic festival of wine tasting and good old gallivanting.

The week long festivities are sponsored by Victoria Abril and filmmaker Claude Lelouche. From art exhibitions to concerts and film screenings, can you expect anything less from the artistically stimulated Parisians?

Wine professionals from the outskirts of Paris will please all of you wine lovers out there. You'll be tasting 'til your cheeks are rosy and you're not quite sure whether you're in the 18th or 8th arrondissement.

Though you'll be admiring a different light with a different view, it's just as enchanting in 2008 as it was in 1887.

From October 6th through the 12th.

Montmartre Grape Harvest Festival
Fetes des Vendanges de Montmartre 2008
Tel: 01 53 41 18 18

Comments

[simon]

Oh! How I wish I was on that blanket, back in Paris, and to be right back with Van Gough, and the vinyards instead of sitting in my office on a Monday morning...