Food and drink in Bonn Wine shop Le Charreau has new owners

Beuel · The new owners of Le Charreau - Authentic Wines in Beuel want to offer customers a wide range of wines that are not part of the mainstream.

Klaus Lichterfeld has managed the wine shop “Le Charreau - Authentic wines” from the ground floor of a beautiful town house next to the Beuel town hall since 2008. Now Joachim Beilfuß and his partner Christine Müller are taking over the small wine shop, which specialises in French wines, especially from the Rhône, Languedoc, Loire and Roussillon regions. Around 80 per cent of the more than 50 bottled wines in the shop come from France and in the medium term, Beilfuß also wants to include German wine in the product range.

The 39-year-old previously worked as a travel agent and is currently working for Deutsche Welle. His mother is French. “In our house there was always good food and good wine,” explains Beilfuß, who speaks fluent French.

From 2007 to 2011 he trained as a “Weinakademiker” at the Austrian Wine Academy and since then has been entitled to call himself a “sommelier for the retail trade.” He has been selling since 2013 under the label “JB & Wein” from his cellar. Beilfuß was already a customer of his predecessor, Lichterfeld, at Le Charreau when the business was still located in Kreuzstraße in Beuel. He later worked as a temporary employee in the wine shop and visited numerous vineyards in France with Lichterfeld.

Two things are important to the new boss: “I want to recommend wines to have with food to my customers and to offer a wide range of wine styles which are not part of the mainstream.” To accompany spaghetti bolognese or ratatouille, Beilfuß recommends the Touraine “Les Griottines” from Domaine des Corbillières (Loire) for Euro 7.95 per bottle, while he comes up with the chardonnay “Grand Valensac” from Domaine Valensac (Pays d’Oc) (Euro 7.50) to accompany hearty sea fish with a vegetable julienne. The price range of his wine is between five and 50 Euros. The selection is complemented by monthly wine tastings.

Info: Le Charreau - Authentische Weine, Friedrich-Breuer-Straße 57, 53225 Bonn-Beuel, <strong>www.le-charreau.de</strong>, Tel. (0228) 44 62 72 19. Open Weds-Fri 3-7pm, Sat 10am to 2pm.

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