Josephine’s Cellar Wine at Malmaison during the Empire
Musée national des Châteaux de Malmaison et Boix-Préau, Rueil-Malmaison, FRANCE
14 November 2009-8 March 2010
The idea for this exhibition came from the inventory drawn up after the death of the Empress Josephine which listed the contents of the cellar at Malmaison – over thirteen thousand bottles. The list of wines served to guests in the house is striking for the number of crus mentioned and the variety of the regions they came from. (…more at RMN website…)