France Holidays, Charente-Maritime Gites, Restaurants and Bars.

Bar & Restaurant
We open Snails Place whenever there is sufficient demand. Cheerful smiling faces behind the bar, excellent draught beer ('pression'), a range of excellent organic wines by the glass or bottle and good wholesome food - just the ticket!

Cash & Carry Organic Wine
At great personal cost and no little pain, We have bravely toured France (or that part we can stagger round in a day) and tasted numerous organically grown wines. Some were frankly filthy, others superb. We've tried to select the latter.
No more chemi-wine that gives you a headache the morning after!

The fruits of our labour are subjected to a wine tasting at Snail's Place most Wednesdays (different wines each other week). Kids under 18 are welcome, they just can't take part in the tasting. The bad news is that we have no spittoon, so you will be forced to swallow what you taste!

If by chance you should happen across a wine that you like enough to buy please feel free to do so. There is a 10% discount for unopened cases.

Please note any of the wines on the tasting list can be drunk with your meal at the take-away price when you dine at Snail's Place on wine-tasting night on the condition that you have participated in the wine-tasting.

This year, spurred on by the success we have had with our organic wine concept (we sell literally 1000s of bottles just in July and August), we are starting a cash & carry operation called 'Ten Green Bottles', so that holidaymakers, even if they aren't staying at Les Granges, can drop in on the way to their destination and buy a case containing a selection of single bottles at the full discount price. On their way back home they can phone ahead and order full case of their favourites to drink at home.

Really exceptional French organic wine with no nasty chemicals. All personally selected (and continuously drunk!) by us and all at low, low prices.