If you're buying wine in BIBs or
en vrac, you really need to be
motorisé, as they say. You need a car to get the wine home. If you live in an apartment in Paris and don't have a car, your options are limited. It's hard to imagine somebody lugging a 10 liter BIB of wine home on the métro or on a bus. Bulk wine, whether
en vrac or in BIBs, is for people who drive to the supermarket or the winery. Here's what the trunk of my car looked like on one trip up to Limeray, near Amboise, a few years ago.
What you see in the trunk of the Citroën is: two
cubis (
cubitainers, jugs) filled with
vin that I bought
en vrac; two BIBs (
fontaines à vin); and two (
cartons — the equivalent of a "case of wine" in France is six bottles, not twelve) holding six bottles each of a wine that wasn't sold in bulk.
Juste pour varier les plaisirs, we they say.
What a great haul at those prices. How is "BIB" pronounced - like bibb lettuce or like "beeb." I'm guessing you don't ask for bag in box.
ReplyDeleteIn French you would pronounce BIB as beeb. I'm not sure in English.
ReplyDeleteA shopper cart wouldn’t do you any good. Is that what they mean by driving me to drink?
ReplyDeleteMitchell! Ha!
DeleteThat should keep the two of you in wine for the next week, right?
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