oday is the day that “new” wines are released in France. These are wine that are young wines – this year’s vintage. These wines generally don’t age well, and should be drunk sooner rather than later. The great thing about these wines is that they’re very drinkable. Wine Sediments, a member site of the Well Fed Network, has articles from several contributros on new wines today. By French law, these wines are released at one minute past midnight on the third Thursday of November every year.
Beaujolais Nouveau is the best known of these wines and is a very approachable wine. Into Wine has several pages dedicated to this fun to drink wine, including this tidbit:
Beaujolais Nouveau owes its easy drinkability to a winemaking process called carbonic maceration—also called whole berry fermentation. This technique preserves the fresh, fruity quality of the wine, without extracting bitter tannins from the grape skins. Continue reading
