Nov 15th, 2012 at 3:00PM: It's time to gulp down those Gamay grapes. In the United States, many wine drinkers turn up their nose at the annual festival of Beaujolais Nouveau, which started today. Under French law, this wine may not be released until 12:01 a.m. on the third Thursday of November, just a few weeks after harvest of the grapes.
Each year, "new" wines are raced from French towns and villages to Paris and ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Finding The Best Ways To Drink Beaujolais Nouveau
Nov 15th, 2012 at 3:00PM: It's time to gulp down those Gamay grapes. In the United States, many wine drinkers turn up their nose at the annual festival of Beaujolais Nouveau, which started today. Under French law, this wine may not be released until 12:01 a.m. on the third Thursday of November, just a few weeks after harvest of the grapes.
Each year, "new" wines are raced from French towns and villages to Paris and ...Beaujolais Nouveau and old: a tale of two wines and two worlds
Nov 18th, 2010 at 3:00PM:
Each year on the third Thursday of November, the world awakens with two words on its parched lips: Beaujolais Nouveau. The next morning it massages its temples and sighs.
In between, 40 million bottles of zingy Beaujolais Nouveau-the quaffable new-wine-are uncorked and spill their purple contents from Anchorage to Zhengzhou. Parties bubble into life, the biggest of them held on the eve of ...In Japan, they bathe in beaujolais
Nov 19th, 2009 at 3:30PM: The Japanese love their beaujolais nouveau so much, they're bathing in it.
At the Hakone Kowakien Yunessun Spa, a hot springs spa resort in Hakone, Japan, they've just celebrated the yearly uncorking of the new wine by pouring bottles and bottles of it into an open-air hot spring bath. The result is happy people in hot pink watered wine stinking of booze and loving it. Photo here.
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