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  History of Beaujolais Nouveau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Beaujolais became Lyons' third river, through an allusion to its popularity and the fact that the wines reached the "Capital of the Gauls" by river.
At the end of the 60s, the trade also ensured Beaujolais Nouveau's penetration abroad, thanks to the long tradition of skilled exporters among the Burgundy wine-growers, who supplemented their range with this new, authentic product.
Beaujolais Nouveau became even more international during the 80s, with its emergence on the Australian market in 1982, then in Japan and Italy in 1985.
www.collinbourisset.com /englishv/histoire_beaujolais_nouveau.htm   (661 words)

  
 10 Fascinating Facts About Beaujolais Nouveau
Beaujolais [BOE-zjoh-lay] Nouveau is always released the third Thursday of November, regardless of the start of the harvest.
Beaujolais Nouveau cannot be made from grapes grown in the 10 crus (great growths) of Beaujolais-only from grapes coming from the appellations of Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages.
Beaujolais Nouveau is meant to be drunk young-in average vintages it should be consumed by the following May after its release.
www.intowine.com /beaujolaisnouveaufacts.html   (395 words)

  
 Beaujolais to brag about
The traditional connection between Beaujolais Nouveau and the beginning of the new year has been all but forgotten in the hype that has developed around the Nouveau craze in the last decade or so.
Beaujolais Nouveau cannot be made from grapes grown in the 10 Crus of Beaujolais, which are reserved for the "serious" wines of Beaujolais.
In many vintages, Beaujolais Nouveau is pretty rough around the edges, having gone directly from the still-bubbling fermentation tanks to the bottle in time for the traditional Nov. 20 release.
www.azcentral.com /home/wine/articles/0113beaujolais03.html   (1040 words)

  
 Wine Weekly » Beaujolais Nouveau Answers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Beaujolais is a region in France, just south of Burgundy; depending on who you talk to, some experts will include Beaujolais in their discussion of Burgundian wine.
Beaujolais Nouveau is a wine made from Gamay grapes grown in the Beaujolais region and released in the same year of its harvest.
Beaujolais Nouveau is not a wine to sniff, swirl, and contemplate; it’s a wine to pour and party with.
wineweekly.com /beaujolais-nouveau-answers   (942 words)

  
 wine, spirits, beer: beaujolais nouveau
The arrival of Beaujolais nouveau from France isn’t yet up to the level of the Indy 500 as a national event—the way it is in France—but the frenzy it generates is reminiscent of the build up for a major sporting attraction.
Beaujolais, regardless of what kind of Beaujolais, is a light and fruity wine made from the Gamay grape in the Beaujolais region located in southern Burgundy from below the town of Macon to just north of Lyon.
Typically, Beaujolais nouveau has a characteristic freshness and fruitiness with lots of cherries and berries in the mouth, a pleasant grapy smell and a lovely, light purplish-red color.
www.samcooks.com /Wine&Spirits/beaujolais.htm   (744 words)

  
 Beaujolais Nouveau Information
Beaujolais, the southern neighbor, decided it should use Gamay and make its wines from this grape.
Beaujolais Nouveau is the first output from each harvest - ready exactly on the Third Thursday of November each year.
Beaujolais Nouveau started as a local event, to celebrate the end of the harvest and congratulate the workers and wine growers.
www.wineintro.com /types/beaujolaisnouveau.html   (315 words)

  
 Beaujolais nouveau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beaujolais nouveau is a wine of the Gamay variety produced in the Beaujolais (AOC) region of France that is authorized for immediate sale after fermentation.
Beaujolais nouveau is produced by carbonic maceration followed by Pasteurization, a process which bypasses malolactic fermentation.
Beaujolais nouveau is not a wine to keep; it must be rapidly consumed within a few months of its production.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beaujolais_nouveau   (642 words)

  
 Beaujolais Nouveau 101 - The Young Wine - Slashfood
Beaujolais Nouveau cannot be made from grapes grown in the 10 crus (great growths) of Beaujolais, only from grapes coming from the appellations (wines distinctive of a particular area) of Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages.
Beaujolais Nouveau is designed for drinking, not fancy tastings with discussions on the wines flaws and merits, and most definitely this is not a wine for collectors to store and age.
Some of the Beaujolais Nouveau made in the last few years have a slightly higher abv from a process called chaptalization where some sugar is added to the grapes before fermentation to allow a higher alcohol level to develop in the wine.
www.slashfood.com /2006/11/13/beaujolais-nouveau-101-the-young-wine   (1568 words)

  
 30 Second Wine Advisor: Beaujolais Nouveau - wineloverspage.com
Beaujolais Nouveau I ignore my own preaching and venture out to taste the new wine.
Some genius in Beaujolais came up with the idea as recently as the post-World War II years: Take the grapes of the new vintage, and use wine-making tricks to create a fresh, fruity and simple little wine that can be rushed to market within weeks of the vintage.
Beaujolais is uniquely suited for this trick: Traditionally a light, early-drinking wine anyway, the regional grape variety - Gamay - lends itself to the vinification method (technically, carbonic maceration) that yields a short-lived but quaffable wine that can be drunk within a couple of months after the harvest.
www.wineloverspage.com /wineadvisor1/tswa041119.phtml   (955 words)

  
 Beaujolais Wine Information
Beaujolais itself is split in two by the Nizerand River - north is Haut-Beaujolais with light soil.
Beaujolais has a distinct wine making method - a combination of carbonic maceration and chaptalization, or adding sugar to boost the alcohol content.
Beaujolais Nouveau should be drunk IMMEDIATELY - it is barely even wine, being released so soon after the harvest.
www.wineintro.com /types/beaujolais.html   (354 words)

  
 Wines of Beaujolais
Beaujolais and Champagne are the only two regions subject to this quaint requirement.
The winemakers of Beaujolais are ready to release the newest vintage, and at the stroke of midnight, the race is off to see who can get the wine to Paris and the rest of the world first.
Sometime in the latter half of the twentieth century, famous Beaujolais producer Georges Duboeuf thought that the rest of the world should be included in this absurdity, and mostly through his aggressive marketing, the release of the Nouveau is now celebrated by wine drinkers worldwide.
www.cs.utexas.edu /users/walter/wine/beaujolais.html   (963 words)

  
 'Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive!!'
The 2004 Beaujolais Nouveau arrived on US shores yesterday, and while all the marketing hullabaloo of a few years ago seems to have subsided, the arrival of this unique, young wine from France certainly marks as much as anything else the transition from autumn to winter.
Unlike most red wines, Beaujolais Nouveau is meant to be served a bit chilled, and is designed to appeal to people who drink a lot of wine.
Beaujolais Nouveau offers the opportunity to mark the passage of time, to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season, and creates an excuse to sit with friends and enjoy a bottle of wine.
www.supermarketguru.com /page.cfm/11638   (409 words)

  
 Beaujolais Wines, Wineries & Vineyards, Pictures, Maps & Guides
No matter when the harvest begins, on the third Thursday of November the world is treated to the release of the Beaujolais Nouveau wines.
For the serious wine drinker, the whole Beaujolais experience is a bit soured since the hyper-marketing of the Nouveau wines has exploded resulting in overproduction and quite a few inferior wines.
Wines of Beaujolais - A bit of info about the wine region and the tradition of the November release date is followed by some solid advice on exploring these wines a list of recommended labels with short reviews and general pricing guidelines.
www.chiff.com /wine/europe/beaujolais.htm   (549 words)

  
 Beaujolais Nouveau - Cellar Notes
Nouveau is the first French wine released from each new vintage.
Beaujolais Nouveau is released on the third Thursday of November, By French law, it can be shipped from France to distributors around the world prior to that date but the importers and distributors must sign agreements not to deliver any of the wine until 12:01 a.m.
Beaujolais Nouveau is also best when consumed within the first few weeks of release.
www.cellarnotes.net /beaujolais_nouveau.htm   (407 words)

  
 Beaujolais Nouveau 2004 (washingtonpost.com)
Beaujolais Nouveau is not a sophisticated French wine.
Bistrot du Coin will have several varieties of Beaujolais Nouveau available Wednesday evening, and after Mayor Anthony Williams pops the ceremonial first cork, all the wine is free.
While it doesn't have the immediacy of opening a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau at 12:01 a.m., the annual Beaujolais Nouveau Festival, held Thursday night at La Maison Francaise, will still be the biggest party there since Bastille Day.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A40504-2004Nov10.html   (442 words)

  
 CNN.com - Beaujolais Nouveau on its way - November 14, 2000
The Beaujolais Nouveau ritual, now enjoyed around the world, is denounced by some purists as a public relations exercise.
But there is no doubt that Nouveau is important to the vintners of the Beaujolais region, around the city of Lyon in eastern France.
Always on the lookout for new buyers, the wine producers are this year launching Beaujolais Nouveau in South Korea, where the recent economic upturn has led to an increase in wine consumption.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/france/11/14/beaujolais.nouveau/index.html   (640 words)

  
 Wine Spectator | Articles | Free Access Area | Beaujolais Nouveau 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Beaujolais Nouveau is produced in two French appellations--Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages--from the Gamay grape.
Much of the wine's light, fruity style is thanks to Beaujolais' characteristic winemaking technique, carbonic maceration, a rather laissez faire technique in which uncrushed grapes are placed in an anaerobic tank and allowed to ferment from the inside out.
Not to be forgotten are the region's "other" wines--Cru Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages--which are released later in the year and typically display more body and complexity than their younger cousin.
www.winespectator.com /Wine/Free/0,3739,14,00.html   (885 words)

  
 Team Player & TeamSage Productions, Inc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Beaujolais Nouveau should be served slightly chilled, between 45 and 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
Beaujolais Nouveau is meant to be consumed young.
The Beaujolais Nouveau event began as a reward for the harvesting crew in northern France.
www.tppevents.com /nouveau.html   (464 words)

  
 Beaujolais Nouveau / Fresh, fruity nouveaus are released, and the world celebrates
According to Chris Stauffenegger, an Oakland-based importer of French wine with her husband Eric, Beaujolais Nouveau was initially a local phenomenon, a celebratory wine for vineyard workers and wine growers.
Beaujolais Nouveau is as alluring in its vitality as warm fresh ricotta -- so recently milk -- or a cookie hot from the oven.
The Beringer nouveau is not Gamay, however, but a blend of Pinot Noir and Valdigue (formerly known as Napa Gamay, a name that is legally being phased out).
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/21/WI97262.DTL   (2647 words)

  
 Beaujolais vineyards
At 400 metres, Chiroubles is the highest in altitude of the Beaujolais Crus and nestles in a granite amphitheatre.
Carmine coloured, it is often said to be the most feminine of the Beaujolais Crus which, according to local tradition, is due to the influence of the Virgin of Fleurie who watches over the wines from her hilltop seat...
This appellation is the standart-bearer of the Beaujolais region.
www.beaujolais-wines.com /crus.htm   (1039 words)

  
 Beaujolais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beaujolais is a historical province and a wine-producing region in France.
The Beaujolais is a French AOC wine generally made of the Gamay grape.
Generally speaking, a Beaujolais should be consumed within the first three years of its life in order to ensure quality; only the wine produced by the best vintners improve with age for up to ten years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beaujolais   (330 words)

  
 L'Adour readies for Beaujolais Nouveau CNY Business Journal (1996+) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Named for the Beaujolais wine-growing region outside Lyons, France, Beaujolais Nouveau is traditionally celebrated as the first wine of the season.
The young red wine is often described as "fruity" and "light." The Beaujolais region also creates aged wines that shouldn't be confused with the Nouveau, he adds Planquart hails from Marseilles, France's Mediterranean port city.
Wine purists insist the first Beaujolais is properly designated "Primeur" rather than "Nouveau," a term reserved for a wine released after spring but before the next harvest.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3718/is_200411/ai_n9462920   (708 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - France uncorks 2002 Beaujolais Nouveau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On Tuesday, 20 teams set off from southeast England on a race for the Beaujolais region, in southeast France, to be among the first to get their hands on a bottle.
The Beaujolais association says 58 million bottles of nouveau were sold last year — half of them overseas.
Partly because of the poor weather, Masson said that overall Beaujolais production, which includes wines that are not bottled as quickly as the nouveau, would drop by about 13 million bottles this year.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-11-21-wine_x.htm   (501 words)

  
 Wine: 'Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive!!' - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The proper term for the wine is Beaujolais Primeur, any wine released in France during the period between its harvest and the following spring is called Primeur, but it is just as much fun to call it new or Nouveau.
Nouveau is meant to be drunk young - in average vintages it should be consumed by the following May after its release.
Serve Beaujolais Nouveau slightly cool, at about 55º Fahrenheit- the wine is more refreshing and its forward fruit more apparent than if you serve it at room temperature.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /magazines/Food/html/20041117T190000-0500_69749_OBS_WINE___LE_BEAUJOLAIS_NOUVEAU_EST_ARRIVE___.asp   (720 words)

  
 BEAUJOLAIS
Typically, simple "Beaujolais" comes from vineyards outside the 10 "crus" (top villages where the wine takes merely the name of the village) or the other 39 "villages" which can be bottled as "Beaujolais-Villages" or be labeled Beaujolais-and the name of the specific village.
Beaujolais Nouveau is a particular type of Beaujolais with a short history.
The Régnié cru in Beaujolais is predominantly sand and granite, though a small percentage of the region is clay soil.
www.weimax.com /beaujola.htm   (3758 words)

  
 Asheville Downtown Association
Nouveau Night – the Association’s biggest fundraiser and one of Asheville’s hottest annual events – will mark its 10th anniversary of celebrating this event on Friday, November 19 at Pack Place.
The lead-up to Nouveau Night begins one day earlier, when vintners in the Beaujolais region of France release the Nouveau Beaujolais on the customary third Thursday of November.
Nouveau Night guests will be greeted at the door with wine glasses and a listing of the wines they will experience.
www.ashevilledowntown.org /event_nouveau.shtml   (526 words)

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