Hotel de l'Europe Grand Lounge ★ 4.5
Hotel de l'Europe is Avignon's oldest hotel (1799) and its lounge bar on Place Crillon pours a serious Rhone wine list by the glass in an elegantly formal setting. Napoleon, Victor Hugo, and John Stuart Mill stayed here; the atmosphere is deliberately unhurried.
The list: Classic cellar of 200 Rhone wines; curated by-the-glass selection of 15 Chateauneuf and Cotes du Rhone Villages in the lounged inner courtyard
Tip: The hotel courtyard is the quietest and most atmospheric wine-drinking space on Place Crillon. Ask for the seasonal Rhone vintage list rather than the standard programme.