The poor, unlucky group of producers that had to put up with me this week 🙂
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Beaujolais
well that was a quick change!
Last month in Chablis, my visits were largely in a window of -3°C to -12°C.
This week in Beaujolais, Monday/Tuesday p.m. temperatures were about 12°C, and I’ll admit to having used the aircon in the car at one, seemingly, stressful point as I struggled to find a domaine – often an address in no more than a ‘lieu-dit’ in Beaujolais! But this afternoon, we hit 17°C – that’s summer in the UK! Fortunately, at least today, I knew where I was going 🙂
A few pics from the last couple of days:
Fleurie – La Madone…
Fleurie – La Madone…
Fleurie – La Madone…
Looking down on Fleurie from La Madone…
Looking down on Fleurie from La Madone…
Over Chénas…
Over MAV towards Fleurie…
Hmm – herbicide in MAV…
There’s some weight there…
7° inside, 17° outside!
The long slow death of (Saint) Amour(?)
Saint Amour, today…
Will it really require the return of a few Mercedes 4×4 to resurrect one of the greatest wines of Beaujolais?
Fine writing from Aaron Ayscough…
want to know more about beaujolais nouveau? of-course you do :)
Even if only from a voyeuristic perspective!
Although most of us might have little more than an afterthought about this wine, it’s still a massive volume that is produced.
In 2015, for example, the Beaujolais region sold 193,000 hectoliters of Beaujolais Nouveau, or more easily understood as about 25.7 million bottles in France and abroad. The most important markets outside France are (in order) Japan the United States and the United Kingdom. I must admit to buying a bottle each year, but only one, and usually the one with the most attractive label!
There is even a website – but I couldn’t get it to work: www.beaujolaisnouveau.fr – Still I don’t think that it will stop me from keeping with my previous buying habits!
ladies of beaujolais…
Honestly, I dislike positive/negative profiling, so ‘women wine-makers‘ at least as a concept, grouping or genre has always seemed odd to me, because the job-title wine-maker is in itself sexless. I’ll give you that from a historical perspective, women winemakers are clearly in the minority – yet that is also ‘so last century…‘
That said, I’ll still take these infos on-board if it brings useful new names; Claude-Emmanuelle and Mee I’ve already visited – so now I’ll have to look out for Sonja, even if I already know the (brilliant) wines!
