There must be a way of getting it before official release. Some Illegal off the books barrel of pre nouveau paid for in cash to a man at a cock fight with a stripey jersey and a beret.
We used to have a Beaujolais Nouveau party every year at one of my old shops in the canteen. It is rank.
They used to feature Nouveau, of which you had to drink a glass before consuming anything else; Nouveau from previous years ('Oldveau'), genuinely tasty vintage Beaujolais and loads of cheese from Neal's Yard.
Despite the awful wine it was one of my best memories of work social life at that time!
Clever French wine producers taking the piss by selling otherwise unsellable wine to hipsters and other gullible trendsters for 2 or 3x the asking price by manufacturing temporal exclusivity.
My m7 dave was a banker in the early 00s and BN day was still very much the thing.
there was a wine bar in a back street in the city where they would all race to drink with the suite of toms the proprietor had invited for the proceedings.
I took part in a "run" back in the last century/millennium. It was a hoot and marked the beginning of the Christmas lash. Was paid in Chateau la Verriere.
The crus and some of the village level Beaujolais will age quite well but the bog standard AOC wines including BN don't have the structure to age, they are made in a very different manner which makes them easy to drink young but precludes any real ageability.
Got some of this festering in the cellar with BBR, will give it another couple of years before dragging it out
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There must be a way of getting it before official release. Some Illegal off the books barrel of pre nouveau paid for in cash to a man at a cock fight with a stripey jersey and a beret.
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I suck it straight from the grapes and if you don't then you're an arriviste.
Also, it's rank.
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heh
more excited about the start of venison season myself
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What is this please?
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We used to have a Beaujolais Nouveau party every year at one of my old shops in the canteen. It is rank.
They used to feature Nouveau, of which you had to drink a glass before consuming anything else; Nouveau from previous years ('Oldveau'), genuinely tasty vintage Beaujolais and loads of cheese from Neal's Yard.
Despite the awful wine it was one of my best memories of work social life at that time!
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Clever French wine producers taking the piss by selling otherwise unsellable wine to hipsters and other gullible trendsters for 2 or 3x the asking price by manufacturing temporal exclusivity.
Ooohhh its only available for a few weeks.
Yes but it's shit.
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Anyone pretending otherwise is a sucker.
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Wine must be the biggest racket going
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Is it a particular type of wine or all wine?
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In the 80s city traders used to race up from Beaujolais in their Porsches apparently, but I am not old enough to have experienced that.
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It is Beaujolais from the current years grapes that isn't good enough to go into the vintage cuvees.
A great French marketing scheme - the wine equivalent of Tartiflette for cheese.
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Venison already in season Laz.
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tbf I love Tartiflette and loved the ritual of the Beaujolais Nouveau parties so high five to the frogs
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OH NO!!
VIle stuff.
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Depends.
There is genuine Beaujolais Nouveau which is young Beaujolais that is mostly shit.
There is shit young wine passed off by french scammers as BJ because it all tastes like shit anyway so who cares?
An annual tulip freakout.
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My very first date with Mrs P was Beaujolais Nouveau day 1983. Yep. She has up with me put for nearly 40 years.
Duboeuf was occasionally drinkable.
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Well I'll give that a miss then!
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Ick
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It is icky. Just disgusting.
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My m7 dave was a banker in the early 00s and BN day was still very much the thing.
there was a wine bar in a back street in the city where they would all race to drink with the suite of toms the proprietor had invited for the proceedings.
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I took part in a "run" back in the last century/millennium. It was a hoot and marked the beginning of the Christmas lash. Was paid in Chateau la Verriere.
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Youse are all wrong it's DELIGHTFUL
Chilled with some fookin lovely fromage
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Make it a 79 barkeep
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Heh, came on to post that myself g’wan
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I will eat fromage in any way, shape or form.
But, not with Beaujolais Noveau.
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There are some good ones.
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Sieteocho - ok. Fair enough. Point me in the right direction, please. I mean it.
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Actually forget that. It's too young. A nice bottle of Morgon.
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Yep, fondly recall many a firm’s BN party back in the ‘80’s and ‘90’s.
Wouldn’t be allowed now by the D&I inspectorate.
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That's 40 years ago Marshall!
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Is wine now banned by D&I inspectors?
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SRA rule 46.3(iii) - Alcohol at a firm event is now verboten as it is not inclusive.
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Marsehole confirms they are also terrified of
The D&I inspectorate.
Whatever that is.
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We have lots of internal events
We have booze
We have non booze
We don't have booze as the central part of the event though - that would not be very inclusive
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But do you have specific booze events?
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Tbf not as many as before
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The list continues to grow.
Marsehole terror list
Every day is Halloween 🎃 for marsehole.
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bizarrely the Welsh still go mad for this and have BN nights like one used to see in the city in the 80s
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Still rent free I see ROLF
🤫
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It was originally supposed to be about checking what this year's vintage is going to be like. It was never supposed to be nice in itself.
If you were an experienced frog you could say, this year's BN is like this, so this year's vintage in x years' time will be such and such.
Then they realised they could sell it to the English who had missed the point.
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Even wee risky gave up on the Rolf thing, oh easily frightened one.
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😂 @ marsehole still not understanding how the “rent free” comment works, even after it was explained 2 him
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Heh, Tweedledee arrives as per normal to his wee Tweedledum.
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The crus and some of the village level Beaujolais will age quite well but the bog standard AOC wines including BN don't have the structure to age, they are made in a very different manner which makes them easy to drink young but precludes any real ageability.
Got some of this festering in the cellar with BBR, will give it another couple of years before dragging it out
https://www.bbr.com/products-20201360967-2020-moulin-a-vent-vieilles-vi…
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Very poor wine. Great excuse for a piss-up.
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