On June 25th 2025 we were to meet friends in Montpanasse. Arriving early we called in to the Cave des Papilles in Rue Daguerre, an old favourite. There we met a friendly 'mec' who responded to our request for something from a rare grape variety with a bottle of white wine at around E.29 if memory serves. Memory doesn't serve to identify the grape 6 months later but suffice it to say that subsequently we discovered that the bottle did not contain the variety the mec had said it did.
The purchase had been put in a paper bag which was to play a part in the disatrous events following ourotherwise extremely pleasant dinner with our friends at a restaurant around the corner. On leaving the restaurant we saw it had begun to rain. They headed off home and we walked to the boulevard to find a taxi. By the time we got to the corner the heavans and opened and an incredible storm had hit with a deluge and wind still remembered to this day. Running here and there traversing the boulevard multiple times chasing taxis, the bottom of the paper bag burst and the bottle fell out and smashed on the pavement,
Normally we might have cleared up the broken glass but mayhem had sent branches of trees crashing to the ground and various street furniture and rubbish was skittering about the place so we just plowed on until soaked to the skin we found a kindly taxi driver who didn't mind his back seat getting wet to take us home.
This is not he first time we have lost a bottle of wine through the bottom of a paper bag in the wet.
Not such a great evening after all.
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