Wine Buying

April 3, 2010
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Buying Wedding wine in france?

I am getting married next year and thinking of going to France to buy wine for the wedding, has anyone done this?? and can anyone tell me about cheap shops in France and advice on good but cheap wines?

Really bad idea. The euro/dollar exchange rate is awful. It’s probably cheaper to buy French wines in the US than use American money in France – the winemakers are having to make their sales in US dollars to keep their wines from being prohibitively expensive in the US.
There are no cheap shops in France.
A lot of the wineries don’t even sell retail.
Transporting the wine will be unsafe and/or illegal and/or expensive – to take it back on a plane – it could break as luggage and you aren’t allowed to bring in more than one bottle per person (you can, but then you may need to pay customs/taxes) and if you bring a lot, they may think it’s for resale and confiscate it. Shipping is beyond expensive.
A friend and I just got back from France and brought back 6 bottles of very good wines. When we checked the prices in the US, they were the same or even lower (even factoring in US shipping).

How do you Buy a Great Wine thats Affordable?

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