This weekend is the Salon des Vins des Vignerons Indépendants at the Porte de Versailles convention center. Vignerons Indépendants is a trade organization that promotes small, independent winemakers.
This is their logo:
To use the V.I. label, winemakers have to do it the old fashioned way- growing, vinifying, bottling and selling their wines with respect, tradition, blah, blah, blah. Aside from a worthwhile commercial mission, Vigneron Indépendant throws a hell of a trade show. Admission, a wine glass and tasting pours are all free. You can buy whatever you like directly from the person who made it. Endless wine for free, from several hundred winemakers from all over France. That's a party. As you can see below, it's popular.
This is about 1/10th of the whole scene. It was a crush of people, many drunk or at least slowed by a decent buzz. We fought through the crowds for a while, tasting whatever looked interesting, before the chaos became too much and we fled.
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