Beaujolais Villages for Thanksgiving! (Neigh!)

2012 Domaine Cheveau "Or Rouge" Beaujolais Villages. I can't even remember where I picked this up, but it was a lovely, slurpable holiday wine! Certainly the cherry Beaujolais Fruit, but a delicious savory core and plenty of refreshing acid made me keep hitting the bottle! Lovely (affordable) wine from a new producer to me!

This years Nouveau....$24 Cdn

[David M. Bueker]

Always good when a wine overperforms.

This years Nouveau....$24 Cdn

Yikes!

I might pay that for the Foillard Nouveau...or maybe even this one. This was THAT good. Not in a fancy or profound way, just plain delicious.

[David M. Bueker]

Brian,

$24 CDN=$5 US

This years Nouveau....$24 Cdn

In our store Nouveau sales have become so small it's hardly worth selling the wine. We call it strawberry pop.

Brian,

$24 CDN=$5 US

Ach, David. He was quoting a Canadian Dollar price, not a price in post-BREXIT pounds tarnished!

Funny, with the title I thought it would be Clos de la Roilette, though I've never seen a Villages from them.

As an aside, I did try that DuBouef nouveau this year, and liked it much better than previous years. There was perceptible tannin, good acidity, and rather than attempting to pump up the body it was left in a more traditional state. Less of the weird bubblegum flavors as well. Basically your standard cafe wine, which is very difficult to come by in the home of the Triple Imperial IPA. It was US$14 (CAN$749) which is a lot to pay in the scheme of things but worth it once in a while.

$749 Cdn?

$749 Cdn?

Once the Triumphant Trump Regime turns its beady eyes to the north, you WILL be using American Dollars anyway!

$749 Cdn?

Ah, that was a rough conversion. It says that currently it would be $18 CAD. Apologies for the miscalculation.

Funny how things change.

Back in the last century my chain sold tons and tons of Nouveau. It was Strawberry Pop then (as Lou Kessler recently said), only more banana laffy-taffy flavored because of the G. Dubouef yeast and carbonic maceration. Used to feature most of the big names, plus air-freighted in several pallets of private label stuff. Then I saw the phenomenon dwindle every year.

Beaujolais: Haven't had a Nouveau for several years now, and don't have any need to have one. Haven't had any Beaujolais AOC for a long, long time. Have had some Beaujolais Villages, but damned selective about that. If I drink Beaujolais now, I drink the Crus---and only a handful of those.

Within the Crus, my taste preferences have changed as well. When I first flirted with Beaujolais if was Fleurie that caught my attention. Now it's Morgon. And I could probably drink variations of Cote de Py and be content. (With periodic quality control samplings of crus to check on the neighbors, of course.)

My preference has gone from Fleurie to Morgon or Moulin-a-Vent but I try other crus because they sometimes surprise in a delicious way.