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Location:  25 Rue des Filatiers, 31000 

Venue Type: Wine Bar / Shop / Compact / Quirky

Year of Inscription: 2024

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EBG Rating:	8.3/10
Choice/ Quality of Drinks	❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ BIO/Organic wines from the region (and beyond) selected by the owner. At least 30% of the stock at any given time is ‘natural wine’.
Style/ Décor	❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Eye-catching frontage evokes 1970s psychedelia with its wobbly bright yellow text, and makes you wonder what’s inside. You’ll find a tiny little drinking den with leaning posts, highly personalised, with the décor largely mementos and presents, while shelves and cases of wines are present too. A small bar at the back is used for the owner to dive back and forth with the latest bottle.
Atmosphere/ Character	❤️❤️❤️❤️ Extremely intimate and personal, to the extent that it almost feels like bordering on gatecrashing if you aren’t a regular. However, you are welcome, or at least tolerated and the experience is of a kind of bar barely existing anymore, particularly in the heart of a major city.
Amenities/ Events	❤️❤️ Wine for sale, snacks
Value For Money	❤️❤️❤️ Entirely fair value given the quality and location.
Description	Le Volcan is the passion project of Eric Desouches, a throwback bar with a 1970s feel, little more than a shop that has been highly personalised. The loud frontage with its psychedelic title screams at you to give it a try. The passion is for natural wines, and a recommendation is very easy to acquire. You’ll be drinking in a tiny, personalised bunker, a shrine to wine, if you like. It feels like it has been open since forever but is actually a product of the late 00s. The venue acquired notoriety for hosting parties long into the night, even operating without a bar license (it was technically a shop), allowed smoking, among other fights with the authorities. Set in the now buzzing Rue des Filatiers, it could hardly accept sole responsibility for noise pollution given virtually every business on the street is turning into a bar or eatery. For French flair of an old-school variety, here is the place to go. If you associate wine with social climbing, to be seen and be seen, or have any pretense in that regard, steer well clear, so the rest of us can enjoy this idiosyncratic, grumpy old survivor. (Added June 2024)