by Gareth Groves
Did you drink Beaujolais Nouveau yesterday? No, me neither.
In years gone by we would have all rushed to taste a red raw Gamay with enamel-stripping acid and a faint whiff of bananas. Not any more. We are learning. Beaujolais is for life not just the third Thursday in November.
The top growers in Beaujolais are producing some of the most exciting wines in France at …
2009 is a fantastic Beaujolais vintage. Not that anyone really cares. Unlike Bordeaux 2009 there are no hyped-up sales campaigns, no 100 point Parker scores and sky-rocketing prices, no-one talking about investment potential or a booming Far East market. It is a crying shame. Good Beaujolais is one of the wine world’s best kept secrets…
by Miss Vicky Wine, http://missvickywine.blogspot.com
So I was going to write about Burgundy, or the Santa Cruz Mountains, and then … when following the beaujolais conversation on the Internet, I’ve started getting scared. Very few beaujolais drinkers seem to understand this region correctly, some drinkers that I can’t blame as they seem to be very badly informed. So from now on, I decided I should write an article a month on the region and …
