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I've been in some really nice french wine cellars, I have a really good connect :). I don't drink much wine day to day though and our red has been a monoculture recently. I imported half pallet of magnums of red that a friend of ours had left over from setting up a chateau for a client. Nearly finished those.
I have to visit Bordeaux for the really good stuff, I'll be very happy to do it again at some point.
I am happy to only drink French wine although the Italian wine I've had in Northern Italy is very good.
Airhead
This. 1/3rd is expensive wine we brought from London that needs to be kept for a few years, but the other 2/3rds is €3-4 a bottle bought on special offers. Mostly cheap Bordeaux which is the local stuff, but also about 8 cases bought at Lidl when they had an Italian week, because it's impossible to buy decent well-priced Italian wine here.
Basically how you live in France is wait till the thing you want is on special offer somewhere, then buy as much of it as you possibly can. Otherwise the cost of living is rather high.