Substance - Cave à vin A new experience for wine lovers and the curious

Substance wine cellar: a new experience for wine lovers and the curious

Baptiste Péjoine, 26, opened a brand new wine cellar in December 2023, just a stone's throw from the Pont de Pierreand Place Stalingrad, as well as the future Belvédère district and Pont Simone Veil.

Originally from the Bastide region, Baptiste, after several stays abroad, gained experience in the restaurant business (L'Orangerie in Bordeaux, La Conche in Lacanau, Chez Hortense in Cap Ferret, La Table in Créon). It was in this context that he discovered his passion for sommellerie. He then took a diploma at CAFA, the prestigious International School of Wine and Spirits in Bordeaux. After an initial sommelier experience in a Gradignan wine bar (Born to be Wine), he joined the Univerre team in Bordeaux, which he left to set up his own cellar, Substance.

Pushing open the door of Substance means discovering a unique selection concocted with passion by Baptiste, who knows each product and each winemaker behind the magnificent bottles. His ambition is to offer wine lovers and the curious bottles that are not to be found everywhere, nuggets unearthed in the course of his peregrinations:

• Signature champagnes (Vouette et Sorbée, Ruppert Leroy, Olivier Horiot, Adrien Renoir, Jérome Dehours, Alexandre Chaillon, Chavost or the magnificent bubbles from Domaine Vincey, most of which are unfined).
  
• Volcanic wines from Envinate in Tenerife, or from the ancient vineyards of Piedmont, or the Loire with Claude Riffault and Sancerrehaute couture, the marvellous wines from Clos de la Molénie, produced by Kim and Sylvain Déstrieux in the Entre-deux-mers region.

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