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14/10/2008, 17:02 Editor - France Magazine Joined on 13/02/2008 Posts 23 Le Beaujolais nouveau Bonjour Forum-users, Who's looking forward to November for some Beaujolais nouveau? Is there a big celebration in your community? Do you usually like the taste of it? What do you eat with it? Is it even more rewarding if you've taken part in the vendanges? Let me know what you'll be doing, or what you might have done in the past. Thanks, Carolyn FRANCE Magazine, Britain and North America's best-selling magazine about France since 1990.    Report

15/10/2008, 6:28 Jotty Joined on 07/09/2008 Posts 103 Re: Le Beaujolais nouveau In the Hérault la fête du  vin nouveau is  on Thursday 16th October until the 18th. A month earlier than Beaujolais, and a wider selection of wines including (usually) some nice Sauvignon blanc etc... Last year was particularly celebrated as it was 100 years since the 1907 revolt  but there are always lots of celebrations. This year Olargues will combine the Fête du marron with the fête du  vin nouveau on the weekend of the 1st of November, and  "une super castanyada y attend également les nombreux amateurs de châtaignes." so I suppose you can say that chestnuts often go with these wines.    Report

15/10/2008, 9:16 Pierre ZFP Joined on 12/11/2004 PdC(62)/Luxembourg Posts 2,713 Re: Le Beaujolais nouveau My archery club is having a B-N evening.  I carefully inquired about the wisdom of drinking and shooting as was assured that we shoot the first part of the evening and drink/eat cheese later ! Make tea not war    Report

15/10/2008, 9:45 Will Joined on 22/09/2004 Sussex & 50 (Mortainais) Posts 5,598 Re: Le Beaujolais nouveau Every year for several years now I have had an invitation from a large French organisation to taste the Beaujolais Nouveau with them. Nothing unusual in that - except that this event, always attended by the company's own top people, is held in London because the arrival of the BN is celebrated more there than in the outskirts of Paris, where they are based. I shall be going this year as I am due to be in England at the time. Will intentionally blank signature http://www.vienormande.com    Report

15/10/2008, 21:58 chessfou Joined on 15/11/2005 Aveyron Posts 621 Re: Le Beaujolais nouveau No, it is certainly not celebrated in these parts. Though last year, I am sorry to say, I noted a "Gaillac nouveau" (which comes from not very far from here). Me, I shall do the same as every year and carefully avoid the muck but I do have quite a few bottles (roughly a case of each) of 2005 (superb year*) Brouilly, Fleurie, Morgon, Moulin à Vent, Régnié and Saint Amour, all from good producers and all of which are coming along very nicely. * I suspect it's the best of the three(!) "millésime du siècle" to have appeared so far this century - (the others being 2000 & 2003).    Report

15/10/2008, 23:01 Christine Animal Joined on 14/05/2005 Deux-Sèvres Posts 4,899 Re: Le Beaujolais nouveau We just drink it.     Animal Aid Saint Aubin Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful    Report

15/10/2008, 23:31 woolybanana Joined on 27/08/2007 Vendée Posts 3,198 Re: Le Beaujolais nouveau We did have some a few years ago but it tasted like a mixture of dog dung and furniture polish. And we emptied it out of the window only to find it had killed Randy's prized loofa plant. Since then not a foul drop. Just overhyped muck it is and will always be. I am slightly surprised that the OP does not know that the fad for Beaujolais Nouveau has been over for a number of years, even in London.      Report

16/10/2008, 8:14 Cerise Joined on 23/08/2004 Laguepie Tarn & Garonne Posts 936 Re: Le Beaujolais nouveau The Gaillac nouveau is nouveau at all but Primeur.  The Gaillac Primeur is always the 3rd Thursday in November and the events at local vineyards carry on into the weekend.  I don't think the Gaillac vignerons even recognise the existence of Beaujolais Nouveau.    Report

16/10/2008, 10:53 Jotty Joined on 07/09/2008 Posts 103 Re: Le Beaujolais nouveau You are quite right Cérise: our 'new' wines are really primeurs. And the Beaujolais Nouveau is hardly recognised, but then there are so many excellent Languedoc wines that we can afford to ignore inferior products ...    Report

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