Le Beaujolais Nouveau 2009 est arrive’!! Seriously friends, if you are looking for the perfect wine for your Thanksgiving meal, look no further than the fabulous tradition of serving Beaujolais Nouveau.
We stumbled upon this wine seven years ago when we went to Paris for Thanksgiving and our birthdays. The whole city was abuzz with the new wine – we arrived jet-lagged and hungry. Our adorable waiter at one of our favorite restaurants, le Bosquet, introduced us to Le Beaujolais Nouveau 2002 which we drank with dinner.
I can't remember his name but he's the one with the pitchers of wine!
We were hooked and for the next 10 days we bought bottles for approximately $1.50 in the local grocery store and carried it with us everywhere for impromptu picnics and nite-caps. I think we even brought some back home with us although my memory gets a little hazy at that point. Yes, I admit we consumed more than our share – good times!!
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And here is more information about the history of Le Beaujolais Nouveau:
At one past midnight on the third Thursday of each November, from little villages and towns, over a million cases of Beaujolais Nouveau begin their journey through a sleeping France to Paris for immediate shipment to all parts of the world. Banners proclaim the good news: Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé! “The New Beaujolais has arrived!” The Beaujolais is a tasty red wine made from Gamay grapes produced in the Beaujolais region. French law states that the Beaujolais Nouveau cannot be released any earlier than the third Thursday of November, so every year on this day producers embark on a mad race to get the first bottles on the shelves. The celebrations began as a local phenomenon in the bars and cafés of Beaujolais and Lyon, where pitchers were filled from the growers’ barrels, but nowadays it’s celebrated around the world.