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Post by JohnnyD on Nov 18, 2021 13:31:58 GMT 1
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Post by ajm on Nov 18, 2021 14:09:50 GMT 1
I think it is over estimated. |
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Post by gigi on Nov 18, 2021 14:13:22 GMT 1
It’s not something I’ve gone in for much, but hope you’ll be able to do a tasting at home or in a nearby shop, Johnny.
We had our invitation from friends who have a wine shop in town to go along to a tasting of Beaujolais Nouveau and Côtes du Rhône this evening but won’t be going along due to my husband’s medical problems. We have a lot of Côtes du Rhône vines around town, and I appreciate a lot of those. Our friends sell an excellent range of local wines at caveaux prices as well as many wines from further afield. We’ve been to a number of tasting evenings of wines from various regions over a number of years, always good and very enjoyable.
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Post by Rob24 on Nov 18, 2021 16:18:35 GMT 1
Johnny I’m in the U.K. right now and had lunch at a French restaurant accompanied by a bottle of 2021 beaujolais nouveau. So you can find it in the U.K. The restaurant had it’s delivery at 12:15 as we had sat down at noon, so had to have an apéro before starting on the wine which was brought straight to the table as soon as it arrived. Very pleasant. |
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Post by woolybanana on Nov 18, 2021 16:52:17 GMT 1
Rancid Ribena, avoid!
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Post by FFS on Nov 18, 2021 17:54:39 GMT 1
A bottle of Pisse-Dru Beaujolais nouveau to accompany the France/All Blacks match on Saturday night will go down very well. www.pisse-dru.fr/ |
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Post by houpla on Nov 18, 2021 21:28:40 GMT 1
It's a well-managed gimmick, but then so's my favourite, Colombelle. Big, annual launch, lots of fêtes and repas, lots of publicité.....But it all adds a bit of fun to what can be a terribly pretentious subject.
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Post by wilbro on Nov 19, 2021 16:29:02 GMT 1
Give it a miss and buy a bottle of decent stuff, should be bottom of the price range but isn't due to gross over-hyping
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Post by FFS on Nov 19, 2021 17:45:20 GMT 1
Give it a miss and buy a bottle of decent stuff, should be bottom of the price range but isn't due to gross over-hyping I'm a daily bag-in-box man, and a bottle of Pisse-Dru BN is decent enough for me in comparison. |
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Post by ajm on Nov 19, 2021 18:10:00 GMT 1
Give it a miss and buy a bottle of decent stuff, should be bottom of the price range but isn't due to gross over-hyping I'm a daily bag-in-box man, and a bottle of Pisse-Dru BN is decent enough for me in comparison. Bag in box every day - that's going some |
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Post by woolybanana on Nov 19, 2021 18:39:03 GMT 1
Some idiot in a fancy dress broadcasting the merits of the stuff in Leclerc just now; been at it all day much to the annoyance of the staff who think like me that the stuff is foul. Judging by the number of cases unsold this far it has not been a raging success.
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Post by omegal on Nov 29, 2021 12:21:41 GMT 1
It's often called a Primeur in other parts of the wine growing areas and just as awful
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Post by curtis on Nov 29, 2021 12:47:04 GMT 1
I've just had a croustillante de canard aux pistaches / beaujolais. Very tasty and bought in the market at the weekend. Don't know if the beaujolais was nouveau.
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Post by houpla on Nov 29, 2021 14:19:32 GMT 1
It's often called a Primeur in other parts of the wine growing areas and just as awful Not all primeurs are awful. All that means is that they're meant to be drunk young, nothing to be gained by laying them down to mature. As said above, Colombelle is another example. Beaujolais seems to take the rap because it was (AFAIK) the first one to have modern, dare I say, clever marketing applied to it. |
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Post by woolybanana on Nov 29, 2021 14:35:52 GMT 1
True about the marketing, it was and has been brilliant. Pity about the liquid though.
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