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If you happen to be in France in September/early October then you are in luck - most of the big supermarkets hold their annual Foire à Vins (Wine Fair) offering wines at heavy discounts from top Bordeaux chateau through to good local appellations. It is a tradition in France that domaines, chateaux and negociants offload surplus stock direct to the major hypermarket chains - generating cash and liberating warehouse space for the next vintage. You can get some real bargains, but it is worth getting hold of their leaflets and doing a little research - especially look out for the vintages, as it will tend to be the poorer vintages which have not sold so well. For 2008 the dates are:-
Casino 9 - 24 September
Carrefour, Intermarché, Monoprix 10 - 20 September
Auchan from 17 September
Leclerc from 24 September
Super U and Hyper U from 23 September
Champion from 1 October .
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