Wine for events · the tools
How many bottles, what budget, for which occasion?
Right now: year-end gifts and festivities
Client gifts before 20 November, Christmas meals before 5 December: after that, the carriers are overwhelmed.
Year-end client gifts
Budget per gift, the €73 VAT threshold, December lead times.
Employee gifts
The URSSAF ceiling, home delivery.
Which wine to give
By budget, by age, by occasion.
Year-end festivities
Order before when; December gets saturated.
Christmas Eve
Twelve at the table, six bottles, good ones.
Right now: summer weddings
The season gets saturated: tastings, deliveries, rosé stocks. For a summer wedding, firm order in April.
Wedding
Drinks reception, meal, party. About one bottle per guest over the day.
Summer wedding
The countdown to your date, and what can still be done 15 days before.
Wedding champagne
Toast only or the whole reception: from one to three times as much.
The wedding menu
Starter, main, cheese, dessert: the wine for each course.
The wedding meal
One bottle for two, one white, two reds.
By question
How many bottles for 80 guests?
Calculate →Guests, moments of the day, share who drink. Result by colour, rounded to the case.
What budget per person?
Price it →Three Bordeaux price levels for 2026, the total and the cost per guest, on your quantities.
Is bringing my own wine worth it?
Compare →The venue's corkage fee against the price of your wine: the exact break-even per bottle.
Is the wine from my birth year still drinkable?
Check →Every vintage from 1945 to 2010: ready to drink, to avoid, what to give instead.
I have my figures, I want a price.
Quote →Reply within 48 working hours, no commitment. Named wines, price per case, delivery.
The figures that keep coming back
glasses per bottle
12 cl, wine glass or flute. Poured generously, count 5.
at the drinks reception
One bottle for three guests over two hours of reception.
at a seated meal
One bottle for two guests over the length of the dinner.
drink wine
Children, drivers, non-drinkers removed. 70% for family events.
margin, no more
Unopened cases are not taken back.
By occasion
Each page is the calculator preset for the occasion, with what sets it apart: the length, the share of children, the moment people over-order.
Wedding
Drinks reception, meal, party. About one bottle per guest over the day.
Drinks reception (vin d'honneur)
One bottle for three guests over two hours. Sparkling, white, rosé.
Wedding champagne
Toast only or the whole reception: from one to three times as much.
50th birthday
The party, and the bottle from the birth year.
Family reunion
Two days, several meals, lots of children.
Corporate event
Cocktail reception, seminar, annual party. Invoice, VAT, delivery on site.
Year-end client gifts
Budget per gift, the €73 VAT threshold, December lead times.
Weddings and family, in detail
Engagement, civil partnership (PACS)
Three wines, half of it champagne.
The wedding meal
One bottle for two, one white, two reds.
Small wedding
Thirty guests: four cases, or the wine shop.
Civil wedding, lunch
The town hall, then a fine table for thirty.
Day-after brunch
Sparkling and rosé, and the cases left from the night before.
Country wedding, at an estate
Heat, no fridge, magnums.
Humanist ceremony
The drinks reception starts earlier, and lasts.
Wedding at home
No corkage fee, no cold room.
Vow renewal
Sixty guests, and the vintage of the wedding.
Large wedding, 200 to 300
Pallet, two services, tight margin.
Silver and golden anniversaries
The vintage of the wedding year.
Christening
Forty guests, fifteen children: few bottles.
First communion
The May lunch, the teenagers' table.
Profession of faith
The teenagers' table, and the adults who drink.
Baby shower
Mostly alcohol-free, and the bottle for their 18th.
18th birthday
The party, and the 2008 bottle.
Housewarming
Thirty friends standing: a wine shop is enough.
Graduation
Champagne for the toast, small budget.
30th birthday
Standing party, sparkling and white, the 1996.
20th or 25th birthday
Sparkling, rosé, soft drinks, and well chilled.
Surprise party
Delivered elsewhere, discreetly.
Picnic, garden party
Rosé, clairet, and the cool box.
40th birthday
1986: the great, easy year.
60th birthday
The lunch, and a magnum of 1966.
70th birthday
The meal, and what to do with a 1956.
80th birthday
The lunch, 1945 or 1947 rather than 1946.
Retirement
The drinks, and the bottle that matters.
Leaving drinks
Ten bottles, and the bottle from the year they joined.
Refreshments after a funeral
How many bottles, which ones, delivered in time.
Christmas Eve
Twelve at the table, six bottles, good ones.
New Year's Eve
The dinner, and the midnight flute.
Easter lunch
Lamb, a Médoc, and no need for us.
Tasting with friends
Six bottles blind, a theme, a scoring sheet.
Hen and stag parties
A blind tasting, three kits of six.
Group buying
Six households, one pallet, the wholesale price.
Alumni reunion
Sixty alumni, and the vintage of the graduating year.
Companies, in detail
Seminar
Two days, one dinner, the hotel's corkage fee.
Wine team building
Twenty colleagues, six wines blind.
Annual party
150 guests, dinner and dance floor.
New Year reception in January
Galette, sparkling, an hour and a half.
Galette des rois
Sparkling with the galette, at the office.
Company Christmas party for families
Families, soft drinks, and mulled wine.
Back-to-work drinks
September, and the start of the gift season.
Cocktail reception
Three hours standing, one bottle for two.
Afterwork drinks
Two hours standing, mostly white.
Opening launch
Press and clients: sparkling first.
Product launch
Press and clients, around the presentation.
Open day
Visitors dropping in, all day long.
Conference, symposium
Two days, four services, two deliveries.
Private view
White wine, elegance per euro.
Trade show stand
Per day, per visitor, no fridge.
Board dinner, AGM
Few bottles, good ones.
Gala dinner
200 seated, magnums, service.
Company anniversary
The vintage of the founding year.
Employee gifts
The URSSAF ceiling, home delivery.
Works council (CSE) gift boxes
Short catalogue, group prices.
Office manager, assistant
The year's wine-ordering calendar, with reminders in your diary.
Local authorities and associations
Association dinner, bingo night
120 guests, tight prices, a drinks stall.
Festival committee, senior citizens' lunch
150 guests, invoice to the town hall.
Neighbours' party
Bag-in-box, no fuss.
The mayor's New Year reception
200 residents, one toast, public procurement.
Golf club
Trophy dinner for 80, and 26 prizes.
Sports club, the third half
End of season for 60, prizes by podium, Loi Évin.
Stadium box
The bottles offered to guests over the season, and the VAT threshold.
Tasting club
One theme per session, the bottles and the budget for the year.
Lodge festive board
The meal after the meeting, every month, for 30 to 80.
Giving wine
Which wine to give
By budget, by age, by occasion.
Find the wine to give
Four questions: for whom, what occasion, what budget, to drink when.
Birth: to keep for 18 years
What will last, in magnum, and how to store it.
Birth: one château per letter
The child's name spelt out in Bordeaux.
Birth gift
For the parents, for the child: who gives what.
Leaving gift
The collection turned into a bottle.
Handing over the keys
The estate agency's bottle.
Professional firms
Lawyers, notaries, accountants: saying thank you without embarrassment.
Chinese New Year
Pairs, cases of six, vintages ending in 8: the February gift.
How many bottles for…
The round number you typed, with its table and its verdict. Under twenty bottles, the answer is “your local wine shop”.
20 guests
Meal only: 8 to 12 bottles. Often, no need for us.
30 guests
Aperitif and meal: 18 to 24 bottles, three colours.
50 guests
Cocktail reception and meal: 30 to 45, more if the party goes on.
100 guests
Full day: 100 to 130. The parcel / pallet threshold.
150 guests
Pallet, staff, chilling the day before.
80 guests
Corporate cocktail reception, four formats compared.
200 guests
Two bars, one pallet, one team.
300 guests
Gala, conference: the bag-in-box bar.
Champagne for 20, 50, 100
Toast only or the whole reception: the table.
Cocktail reception (apéritif dînatoire)
Three hours standing: one bottle for two.
Cost of a drinks reception
€4 to €9 per guest depending on the share of champagne.
Glasses per bottle
Six at 12 cl, five poured generously, twelve from a magnum.
Glasses and waiters
Flutes, glasses, breakage, staff: the count.
Bottles per table
Table of 8 or 10, magnum or not: what goes on each table.
Open bar
Hour by hour, and what the extra hour costs.
Who doesn't drink
Children, drivers: the share to enter, the soft drinks to plan.
Which wine with…
The dish decides the colour, and the colour decides the quantities. Bordeaux appellations, never a château.
The wedding menu
Starter, main, cheese, dessert: the wine for each course.
Order of wines
Your menu checked: order, temperature, glasses.
Lamb
Pauillac, Saint-Julien. Easter and big meals.
Beef
Margaux, Saint-Estèphe, crus bourgeois.
Duck
Saint-Émilion, Fronsac: the Right Bank.
Fish
Pessac-Léognan, Graves: and more white in the calculation.
Oysters and seafood
Entre-deux-Mers, well chilled.
Foie gras
Sauternes in half bottles, one for eight.
Barbecue
Rosé, clairet, chilled red. And keeping it cold.
Cheese
Cheeseboard, goat's cheese, blue: three answers.
Charcuterie
Boards and drinks: clairet, light red.
Raclette, fondue
Dry white, and what Bordeaux doesn't make.
Sushi
Young dry white, or sake, frankly.
Pizza
Young Bordeaux Supérieur, for pizzerias too.
Cold buffet
Rosé and dry white, standing or seated.
Couscous, tagine
Rosé or light red, frankly.
Paella
Rosé and dry white for the Spanish night.
Dessert, the wedding cake
Sparkling or Sauternes, never red.
Poultry
The safe dish of banquets.
Game
Pomerol, older Saint-Émilion.
The vegetarian menu
White, rosé, light red.
The Christmas menu
Foie gras, capon, yule log: dish by dish.
Rules, lead times, logistics
When to order
The countdown to your date.
Delivery
Lead times, charges by band, parcel or pallet.
Chilling 50 bottles
Tub, ice, salt: minutes and kilos.
Serving temperature
In a room at 24 °C, serve cooler.
Should you decant?
Young, yes; old, gently; for 150, rarely.
Leftover wine
Keep it, give it, and avoid having too much.
Temporary drinks licence
Associations: the application at the town hall, the limits.
VAT on wine
Gifts, receptions: what can be reclaimed.
Year-end festivities
Order before when; December gets saturated.
Summer wedding
The season gets saturated: firm order in April.
Family Christmas
Twelve at the table, six to eight bottles, good ones.
Bordeaux: which wine, which vintage, where to buy it
Which Bordeaux for a wedding
Médoc, Saint-Émilion, Pessac: at which moment, what age.
Second wines
The great name at a third of the price. The smart buy.
Vintages to drink in 2026
2005 to 2023: in their window or not.
Bordeaux vintage chart
1945 to 2025, bank by bank: the great years and the wines in stock.
Where to buy
Wine merchant, wine shop, supermarket, producer: compared, including where we lose.
Buying wine in bulk as a private buyer
From how many, how, what isn't included.
Building a wine cellar
Ready-to-drink wines, three-to-five-year wines and wines for laying down, case by case, with the budget.
Having a large cellar filled
From 200 to 2,000 bottles: composition, budget, an appointment with an adviser.
Starting a cellar in retirement
Three model cellars to drink well for fifteen years, and the share for laying down at 65.
A bonus, selling a business
The bottle from the founding year, the closing dinner, the first cellar.
Wine for a holiday home
Villa, chalet: the order for each stay, the welcome for tenants.
Villa with friends
A week for fifteen: one case a day.
Ski chalet
Raclette, red, and delivery before you leave.
House at Cap Ferret
A summer on the Bassin: the white for the oysters, delivered before you arrive.
House in Arcachon or Pyla
Open all year round: one order a year, stored on site.
House in the Basque Country
Bordeaux at the Basque table, Irouléguy bought locally.
Chalet in Megève
The ski season, holiday parties for ten, and wine that freezes.
House in the Dordogne or the Gironde
Owners living abroad: delivered before you arrive, taken back home.
Bag-in-box or bottle
Cost, service, image: the comparison tool.
For the Bordeaux enthusiast
Keeping, opening, serving, comparing: the tools for people with a cellar.
When to open this bottle
Too early, at its peak or declining: the drinking window of your Bordeaux.
My bottles to open this year
Your cellar sorted by urgency. The list stays in your browser.
Aerate or decant?
Aerate a young wine, decant an old one, or serve from the bottle.
The fill level of an old bottle
Neck, shoulder: what the level says about drinking it and about its value.
Vertical or horizontal tasting
Bottles, glasses, serving order and budget, with the vintages in stock.
The Bordeaux classifications
1855, Saint-Émilion, Graves, crus bourgeois: every classified château.
Reading a Bordeaux label
What each term guarantees, and what means nothing.
Magnum, jeroboam, imperial
What a large format changes: ageing, price per litre, glasses.
Our wines by appellation
Each page lists the châteaux of the appellation that we offer, vintage by vintage: indicative price, ready to drink or to keep, food pairings.
All the wines, as a list
The whole price list on one page: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Rhône, Loire, Champagne. Filter by colour, format or price.
Pauillac
From the second wines to the three first growths.
Margaux
From Château Margaux to the second wines.
Saint-Julien
From the second wines to the second classified growths.
Saint-Estèphe
From the unclassified to the second growths.
Haut-Médoc and Médoc
From everyday wines to the 1855 classified growths.
Moulis and Listrac
Poujeaux, Chasse-Spleen, and Clarke in Listrac.
Pessac-Léognan
Reds and whites, from the second wines to Haut-Brion.
Graves
Reds and whites from south of Bordeaux.
Saint-Émilion grand cru
From the unclassified to the premiers grands crus.
Pomerol
From La Croix de Gay to Pétrus.
Montagne-Saint-Émilion
Right Bank merlot, at party prices.
Sauternes and Barsac
Yquem, Climens and the old vintages.
Bordeaux Supérieur
The red for big tables.
Champagne and other regions
For professionals
Regular buyers: trade prices, samples, delivery to the venue. No exclusivity.
Restaurant
Wine list, wine by the glass, great growths and old vintages direct.
Hotel
Minibar, bar, room service, VIP bottle in the room.
Caterer
Event by event, delivered to the venue.
Accountants
The business gift simulator to pass on to your clients.
Wedding planner
Tastings for couples, quote in 48 h, net prices or referral fee.
Wine list
How many wines, what split. A structure generator.
Wine shop
Great growths, second wines, old vintages direct.
Importers and wine shops abroad
Mixed pallet ex Bordeaux, Incoterm, excise, VAT: the pallet calculator and the rules.
Concierge services and palace concierges
A vintage, a great growth, a magnum for a client, fast: the request ready in a minute.
Yacht provisioning
Guests and nights on board → champagne, rosé, white, red, magnums and great growths for the cruise.
Wine subscription box
Bottles per month and per wine, purchasing budget over the year.
River cruise
A boat's season, stop by stop.
Independent sommelier, consultant
All your clients' requests, in a single one.
Bar, pub
Four wines by the glass that keep turning over.
Hunting society
The hunt dinner: 60 guests, game, the right red.
Opening a restaurant
The opening cellar: twenty wines, three weeks of stock.
Bistro, brasserie
Carafe, glass, the Bordeaux that sells.
Fine dining
Classified growths, old vintages, allocations.
Wine bar, wine bistro
Turnover, by the glass, Coravin.
Hotel minibar
Half bottles, turnover, margin.
VIP in the room
The welcome bottle: which wine, what price.
B&Bs, holiday cottages
Guest table, small orders.
Event agency
Multiple sites, invoicing, delivery.
Venue, estate
The in-house cellar, the corkage fee.
By-the-glass markup
Selling price and margin per opened bottle, losses included.
On the Côte d'Azur
With Le Paradis du Vin, Transvins's sister company in Vallauris, between Antibes and Cannes. See also yacht provisioning and concierge services, above.
Wine shop in Vallauris
Le Paradis du Vin, Transvins's sister company: opening hours, phone, and what you'll find there.
Antibes and the Cap
Yacht in Port Vauban, villa on the Cap, restaurant: where to start, and the nearest wine shop.
Juan-les-Pins
How many bottles for a summer evening, from drinks for six to a party for forty.
Sophia Antipolis
Client gifts, seminars, leaving drinks: wine for the companies of the technology park.
Rented villa on the Côte d'Azur
The cellar for your stay in cases, delivered before you arrive; the agencies' welcome bottle.
An evening in Cannes
Festival, MIPIM, Cannes Lions: bottles by colour, magnums, and when to ask.