The Nouveau wines are released today. I still look forward to this release every year. This year feels a little exciting and there is definitely something a little different about the 2017 vintage, especially from France. The wines this year are a little more austere and this may be a...
I traveled to France in November to check out the Beaujolais Nouveau release. After spending a few days hunting for Cabernet Franc in St Émillion I knew that I had to go to Beaujolais. Beaujolais, like Ontario, is currently take the long way up recovering from a bruised reputation stemming...
“This is the best party of the year at this bar” these words were uttered to me by a very drunk French patron of Le Barricou (1 Boulevard Du Temple, Paris) at 11pm on November 20th the release of the 2014 Beaujolais Nouveau. Walking down the streets of Paris you...
This week on November 20th we will be greeted with 9 offerings from France, Italy and Ontario in their local LCBO. Nouveau has a certain contradiction about it … the hardest wine snobs will turn their nose up at it… but the budding wineaux has no idea that it even...
The Third Thursday marks the arrival of Nouveau! I may be one of the few holdouts but I really look forward to the Nouveau release. I believe that from a wine snob perspective it’s a great litmus test to the quality of the harvest from the year. Let’s face it...
I still get excited about the third Thursday in November. Even after getting deeper and deeper into more “serious” wines there is something about Nouveau that I find exciting. If you’re not familiar with the first wines of the harvest I won’t mince words, Nouveau is basically the Coca-Cola of...
Sorry I’m a day late with this … but HERE is where you can purchase your Kerner Nouveau from Reif https://www.reifwinery.com/wines/Kerner_Nouveau Something I would highly recommend. This week it’s time to take a departure from my usual picks of great Ontario wines. The third Thursday in November the wineries release...
