Waiting Wednesday

Today begins Montmartre's much-awaited grape-harvest vendanges celebrations.

Above: members of the exclusive Clos Montmarte, symbolic vineyard of the days of wines and vines, start to gather

LA VILLAGE EN FÊTE

Fête des Vendanges 2025

Ends Sunday October 12

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Program

 

Festival Friday

Montmartre's annual autumn grape harvest and wine festival bursts into life Wednesday, October 8.

 LA VILLAGE EN FÊTE 

Fête des Vendanges 2025

Ends Sunday October 12

Vendanges 2024

 

 

- ALL WEEKEND -

 LA VILLAGE EN FÊTE 

Fête des Vendanges 

 Ends Sunday October 13, 2024

 

Marching Monday

 

From this year's colorful Montmartre grape harvest parade in celebration of France's many diverse wines.

 

Starting point: cabaret Lapin Agile, just across from Paris' symbolic last vineyard

 

 

Below: marching bands, dancers, regional costumes

 

Tomorrow: The Tasting Trail

              

                 

Montmartre en fête #1

All weekend the butte was alive with festivities celebrating the grape harvest.

Above: scenes from annual parade

Vendanges 2018

Montmartre, its slopes once green with vineyards, celebrates its 85th grape harvest festival.

Above: inside Paris' last vineyard

Montmartre Grape Harvest Festival 2018

[full program w/today's parade schedule]

- This year's featured guest wines are from Portugal -

Harvest parade

Montmartre's mad annual vendanges parade celebrates the fall wine harvest, with regions from all over France represented.

Below: one of several drum bands winding through streets

And here they come... Best results w/earphones