Natural Wine in Paris: Where to Drink It, With Proof

Paris is one of the cities where natural wine took hold first, and it's second only to New York in our index. This page lists the places we can prove pour it, from the same evidence file as the Paris guide, so the list below is current when you read it.

Two words help. A "bar à vin" is a wine bar. A "cave à manger" is a wine shop where you can also sit and eat, usually paying the shop price for the bottle plus a corkage fee; many of the city's natural-wine addresses work this way. "Vin nature" is what to ask for. The legal drinking age in France is 18.

How to read the list

Every place we list has proof on file that it pours natural wine: its own website says so, its wine list names natural producers we recognise, a named publication calls it a natural-wine venue, or natural-wine importers list it as a stockist. The Funk Score adds that proof up, point by point; it never counts ratings, reviews or payment. Each place shows its source and the date we last checked it. How the Funk Score works · The stamps

Lists change: wine lists turn over, bars close, new ones open. We re-check on a schedule and the dates show it. If something is wrong, write to hello@isitfunky.com and we'll look again.

Before you go

• Check opening hours on the venue's own site or Instagram. Small natural-wine bars keep short, changeable hours.
• If a place links a booking page, it's on its isitfunky page. Where there's none, walk-ins are usually the norm, but we can't promise it.
• Not sure what to order? Name a direction rather than a grape: something light and chilled, a pét-nat, or skin contact. The glossary has the words.
• Going to several places? The crawl planner builds a walkable route between proven places in Paris, and the map shows them all.

More: the short answer for Paris · Top 10 in Paris · our earlier Paris guide.