Bercy Bottles !

A few earlier postings in the dim distant mists of early history in this blog mentioned the once renowned wine warehouse area in Paris, les Entrepots de Bercy, which was a vast quarter of big old warehouses serving as a stocking and distribution center for a large part of the wine consumed in Paris... you can imagine the quantities involved over the years ! ! In 1986 I was able to slip under a gate and took a trespassing walk (I know, I'm bad) in the Bercy warehouse section of Paris, before the whole zone was razed to make way for apartment blocks and offices... a sad loss of an important historic site. These crates full of empty bottles were stacked outside, waiting to be filled from the huge wine casks arriving by barge on the Seine River. An example of French culture at its finest here ! Wow, all this writing is making me thirsty ! Going to go uncork a bottle...
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