"Have some Beaujolais nouveau!" "Thanks, but I'd rather drink some wine!"
Beaujolais nouveau is an awful stuff. The vinification process is accelerated to produce a beverage that can be sold within a few weeks, thus generating cash much sooner than if you wait for real wine to develop. The biggest consumers of Beaujolais Nouveau are Japan and the US...
Beaujolais (the normal one) is highly overrated except for some good ones like Moulin-à-Vent or Morgon (we had a nice Morgon the first time Helen came to Lyon), but you have to know the good proroducers.
By the way, my mother's family came fron Romanèche-Thorins. "Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char
The biggest consumers of Beaujolais Nouveau are Japan and the US...
Beaujolais Nouveau on 11/27 - beyond polemics Postby AlexR on Wed Nov 19, 2008 Of course, there are trends in wine just like everything else. Even among the more staid, bourgeois wine drinkers among us ;-). A recent trend is to knock Beaujolais. Indeed, the press has not been kind to the appellation and sales have suffered. Saying you like Beaujolais these days is like admitting to having seduced the babysitter. However, let me speak up in defense of Beaujolais on 2 counts: - Beaujolais Nouveau is simply fun. It's cheap and cheerful, and is one of the minor events on the calendar I look forward too. To a certain extent, quality is not the paramount attraction at this price point. It's the ritual of the thing. Many of the labels look good, and some of the better known shippers/producers put out a very honest product. So, color me a hopeless romantic, or fool, or babysitter seducer, but I always buy Beaujolais Nouveau at least once in November - not expecting a Clos de Vougeot, but a fun, fruity, little wine. ... Let us take Beaujolais Nouveau for what it is (and what it costs), and have a nuanced judgement of the appellation as a whole. Best regards, Alex R. Postby David M. Bueker on Wed Nov 19, 2008 AlexR: "Saying you like Beaujolais these days is like admitting to having seduced the babysitter." Huh? Where's the problem? :twisted: Anyway, this is a strange forum to post a defense of Beaujolais. There's a ton of Beaujolais fans here. As for Nouveau (and isn't the release date 11/20), I really consider it a different beast. It's a party. To consider Nouveau indicative of the region would be the rough equivalent of considering fermenting samples of Entre-deux-mers to be the flagship of Bordeaux. http://www.wineloverspage.com/forum/village/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20148&start=0
Beaujolais Nouveau on 11/27 - beyond polemics
Postby AlexR on Wed Nov 19, 2008
Of course, there are trends in wine just like everything else.
Even among the more staid, bourgeois wine drinkers among us ;-).
A recent trend is to knock Beaujolais.
Indeed, the press has not been kind to the appellation and sales have suffered.
Saying you like Beaujolais these days is like admitting to having seduced the babysitter.
However, let me speak up in defense of Beaujolais on 2 counts:
- Beaujolais Nouveau is simply fun. It's cheap and cheerful, and is one of the minor events on the calendar I look forward too. To a certain extent, quality is not the paramount attraction at this price point. It's the ritual of the thing. Many of the labels look good, and some of the better known shippers/producers put out a very honest product. So, color me a hopeless romantic, or fool, or babysitter seducer, but I always buy Beaujolais Nouveau at least once in November - not expecting a Clos de Vougeot, but a fun, fruity, little wine.
... Let us take Beaujolais Nouveau for what it is (and what it costs), and have a nuanced judgement of the appellation as a whole.
Best regards, Alex R.
Postby David M. Bueker on Wed Nov 19, 2008
AlexR: "Saying you like Beaujolais these days is like admitting to having seduced the babysitter."
Huh? Where's the problem? :twisted:
Anyway, this is a strange forum to post a defense of Beaujolais. There's a ton of Beaujolais fans here.
As for Nouveau (and isn't the release date 11/20), I really consider it a different beast. It's a party. To consider Nouveau indicative of the region would be the rough equivalent of considering fermenting samples of Entre-deux-mers to be the flagship of Bordeaux.
http://www.wineloverspage.com/forum/village/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20148&start=0
