A wine and spirits shop on rue du Maréchal Joffre, in central Cannes near the Palais des Festivals. 4.7 across 117 reviews — a modest base we read as a light signal — listed here from the public record, unexplained date on the sign and all.
1862 Wines & Spirits is a wine merchant at 5 rue du Maréchal Joffre, listed on Google as a caviste — a shop for wine and spirits. On Google it carries a 4.7 rating across 117 reviews, which is a good score for a shop of this size, though the sample is small enough that we treat it as a light signal rather than a verdict.
We're straight about the volume: 117 reviews is a thin base. This is a small neighbourhood shop, not a landmark, and one enthusiastic week can move a number like that. The recurring words in the public reviews are service, prices, budgets, passion and the shop itself. That word budgets, coming back the way it does, reads like a merchant who can advise across price levels — but that's our reading of the public reviews, not something we've verified. No budget is published anywhere we can see, so we're not going to guess at prices.
Rue du Maréchal Joffre is a central Cannes street, close to the Palais des Festivals and to the rue Félix Faure. That puts the shop in the part of town you cross on foot anyway rather than out on an errand of its own — convenient if you're picking up a bottle between other stops, and easy enough to walk past without noticing the front.
We haven't shopped here ourselves yet, so this is a sourced notebook entry, not a review. The first thing we'd ask about is the name. The sign says 1862, and we have no source at all for what that date refers to — a founding year, a vintage, something else entirely. We're not going to invent an answer, and it's exactly the kind of question a shop like this usually enjoys being asked at the counter.
Practically, the hours are simple for once: Monday to Saturday, 10am–7pm straight through, closed Sunday. No lunchtime break to catch you out. We'd call +33 4 93 39 44 56 ahead if you're after something specific, since the reviews point to advice rather than a fixed catalogue. Beyond that, the rating and the address are the honest signals; we'll add our own verified notes after a visit.