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La Route du Vin

Sunday, December 7, 2008

French wine Beaujolais Nouveau perfect for the holidays

For years, celebrating the release of Beaujolais Nouveau on the third Thursday in November was a tradition for us. We had planned to revisit our tradition two weeks ago with an extensive tasting of Beaujolais Nouveau -- literally, new Beaujolais wine from France.


That went out the window when, to our dismay, we found just one Beaujolais Nouveau available in Pennsylvania state stores.

While the 2008 Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau ($13.99) was a fine example of a nouveau -- clean and fresh with tart fruit -- tasting just one producer's effort was not nearly as fun as tasting, say, 10.

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