In France you can't be a wine Museum! The Paris Museum about the history of winemaking, was created specifically to maintain the traditions and standards of quality.

There is a Museum in the vaulted cellars that were once underground gallery of the Franciscan monastery. In the XV century Passy Abbey was surrounded by sloping down to the Seine terraces grew gardens and vineyards. The monks found under the old convent quarry, remaining after the extraction of limestone in former times, and turned them into the cellars for wine storage. Say, Louis III liked after hunting in the Bois de Boulogne to go to the Abbey of Passy and drink the local red wine.

During the French revolution, the monastery was looted and destroyed. Only in the twentieth century remembered about these cellars and opened them in the Museum.

In the cellars of the mile long display about 2000 items: tools winemakers (many of them no longer used), a solid collection of barrels, bottles and labels for them, corkscrews, ceramic vessels, glasses. Wax figures depict Bacchus, Dionysus, known to wine connoisseurs Napoleon, Balzac, Louis XIII, and the monks are at work at different stages of production. The price includes a glass of wine (for children grape juice).

Here at the restaurant tasting vintage wines, the sommelier lessons, theme nights.

The Museum belongs to the "French Council of the Cup-bearers" - an organization established in 1954 to protect and promote the best of French wines. The Council consists of several thousand professionals and wine lovers that don't just keep the knowledge and expertise of the winemakers of the past centuries, but also organize various events in France and abroad.