Le Beaujolais Nouveau va bientôt arriver (2 cases to give away)
Posted on November 16th, 2010
Saved in Competition, Red wine
Le Beaujolais Nouveau va bientôt arrive!
And sourgrapes.ie has two cases to give away, thanks to Febvre, wine importer and distributor.
All YOU have to do is pop a witty comment below.
It’s about to arrive? What is, the IMF?
Yes, but no, the Beaujolais Nouveau.
Oh! What’s that?
A celebration (or clever marketing ploy) by Georges DuBoeuf, whereby he releases very young wine, from Beaujolais on November 18th.
What’s it like?
Made from Gamay, it’s fresh, bursting with bright berries, bubble gum and banana.
Really?
Yes, it’s from the carbonic maceration you see.
Mastication?
No maceration, the juice ferments from within the grapes.
Huh?
Nevermind, but don’t forget to drink it slightly chilled.
Chilled, a red wine?
Yes. And it’s great with turkey and ham if you’re doing those for Christmas or Thanksgiving.
Expect to see
A very purple inky wine inside a bottle with a very vivid colourful label.
Expect to hear
Shouts of “Beau Nou!”, as the cork is popped.
Where and how much?
SuperValu, Centra, Molloys, O’Briens, O’Donovans of Cork, Mitchels CHQ, Donnybrook Fair and independent off licences for for about €10.
I don’t think it will be so bad under the IMF. That whole “independence” thing got a bit stale, if you ask me.
I really hope they stick it to those mollycoddled public sector workers – excepting my psychologist wife, of course.
Pour moi, sil vous plait.
La nuit du nouveau beaujolais est toujours le meilleur en France.
J’amerais hoter une petite soiree chez moi pour le nouveau boujoulais et creér la vrai ambiance francaise.
I first drank Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais when I was 19 in Blackrock, Cork. My girlfriend’s father poured me a glass. That was 11 years ago.
The next time I tried it was in Seoul, South Korea. I poured myself a glass this time, from a bottle procured at a ’7/11′. Hmmmm. It was the most readily available French red wine in the city. That was 7 years ago. I’m now a fan. I drink it regularly. Can I have 2 cases of it please.
Found on the www. “nun calls into mother superiors office ‘mother superior, we have found 2 cases of syphilis’ reply from mother superior ‘oh great! I was getting sick of the beaujolais’ he he he
Beaujolais Nouveau, si vous plais.
And Bailout Nouveau for the rainy day.
I am a born and bred Yank now living in Dublin. To me, Beaujolais Nouveau means Thanksgiving. My family would stock up on bottles of the delicious nectar, which is a perfect accompaniment to the T-giving turkey feast. As a child, I was unaware of the coincidental falling of Beaujolias Day around Thanksgiving. Instead, I assumed that the wine was produced specifically for the holiday because my parents, aunts, and uncles seemed more excited by the contents of the ornate bottle than I was by the contents of Santa’s stockings at Christmas.
Oh how the tables have turned! Now I salivate over the contents of the colorful bottle on my favorite gluttonous holiday. I am hosting my second Irish Thanksgiving this year, cooking for over 30 of my friends (and their friends, and significant others, and siblings, etc… they really came out of the woodwork). There is nothing I would love more than a lil’ Beaujolais to bring the meal together and honor my family tradition.
So I present a poem:
Ahem.
Thanksgiving day soon approaches
as yuletide also encroaches.
True, it celebrates Yankee pride
but this year we will take a bride
and feed 30 of my Irish friends
from Kerry, Mayo, and other ends
of this beautiful green isle…
a motley crew we did compile.
Turkey, taters, soup and pies
I hope it doesn’t all go awry.
What else? I ask, I plead, I pray
could make an even finer day?
We all will shout three cheers, hooray!
If we fill our glasses with beaujolais!
Merci beaucoup!
Poems eh….. hmmmmm
There once was a French appellation
Which during it’s fine maceration
Would yield quite a scandal
Duboeuf had to handle,
Oh God bless Gamay’s reputation!
Oh dear, how can I compete with a poem and a limerick? I might be wittier after a bottle or two of that beaujolais…
I think I might plan a party for the Beaujolais Nouveau. It is always a great night in France.
Let them eat cheese and drink Beaujolais Nouveau I say!
A witty comment
‘And it’s great with turkey and ham if you’re doing those for Christmas or Thanksgiving’
I’m sure it is – but it’d never last that long in my posession to find out. Come to think of it – how many bottles in a case…? I still reckon it’d be all gone by …lemme see….cultchies xmas shopping day. Glug Glug…
Viva la recession!!
I still don’t know my claret from my beaujolais so will have to try this
We’ll just have to roll up our sleeves and drink our way out of this recession and what better way to start than with two cases of Beaujolais Nouveau.
Me…Im not panicked by the IMF arriving, i think they finally translated Cead mile Failte and discovered that Ireland is the land of a hundred thousand welcomes so they are here for the craic, ceol and a bit of “ag ol” …..so I raise my case of Beaujolais Nouveau and bid them Bienvenue..!!!
To Beaujolais Nouveau or not to Beaujolais Nouveau that is the question …….oui oui oui…..is the answer…..
I Oliva, take you, Beaujolais Nouveau, to have and to hold from this day forward, till an empty case do us part, Amen