Aimé Cougoureux likes Beaujolais wines. Unfiltered wines, unsulphured. « Wines that give you the impression that you are eating the grape” is how the owner of the Bourgogne in the Marais explains.

His bistro, Ma Bourgogne, is one of the bistros of Paris to recommend with the most wine by the glass on offer. Open bottles are not placed on shelves heated by neon lights. On the contrary, Aimé Cougoureux takes care to put them in a cool place, so that each glass of wine gives its best potential. The love of wine is recognised especially by little gestures like that.

Twice a year, Aimé Cougoureux leaves for an expedition in the vineyards. Once in the Bourgogne, another time in the Sancerrois. Aimé makes a point of satisfying all tastes. The amateurs of great Bordeaux names, Médoc, Pauillac, Pomerol, de Bourgogne, Puligny Montrachet or Corton Charlemagne without mentioning Côtes du Rhône. But in his selection of the week, he uncovers the small producers who provide you with wonders, wines not over filtered or sulphured, which avoids putting your head upside down.


For the great wines, Aimé Cougoureux quotes the vineyards of the Herault next to St Chinian. “These vineyards don’t produce more than 25 hectolitres to the hectare on old Grenache and Syrah vines. The result is incredible. Thus, these wines have nothing to envy of the great Bordeaux. But these bottles, I keep for the connoisseurs because it’s a great art.”