If you're savoring the Nouveau, I'm going to laugh at you.

Paris: Beaujolais Nouveau Wino Weekend Begins: "

In North America, people celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November; it's a day of gratitude, love, and generosity. France, being France, celebrates a wine -- the year's new Beaujolais -- on the third Thursday of November. It's a day of drinking, drinking, and, uh, drinking. Beaujolais can be most charitably described as simple, young, and fruity. Most Frenchmen, however, describe the arrival of the Beaujolais Nouveau as a great excuse to drink the cheap vinegary stuff. In large quantities. This is not one of those wines where you sniff at the cork, take a sip, then swish around in your mouth to fully appreciate it in all its exquisite complexity. It's more of a 'whoo, the weekend's almost here, let's go to some smoky old wine bar with friends, and drink bottle after bottle of the stuff while snacking on little sausages-on-a-toothpick!' No tips needed to find a good place to quaff the ol' Beaujo': almost all cafés, brasseries, and wine bars in Paris and the rest of France will be offering a special today and in the next few days to come. So elbow up to your favorite bar counter with your friends, and let all that astringent goodness flow. Incidentally, in New York, today's advent of the Georges Duboeuf vintage shall be commemorated with various Frenchish restaurants serving dishes and/or cocktails created with the wine, available through November 20.

Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau 2005 [Official site]

[Eric Z. Chang]

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