Beaujolais

Food and Drink

Culture Re-View: How Beaujolais Nouveau day become a cause célèbre

16 November: Happy Beaujolais Nouveau day!

16 November 2023

Business

Beaujolais Nouveau: Bad wine, good for business?

The latest harvest’s first bottles of Beaujolais wine are sold from the third Thursday of November. The young and ‘new’ red wine had long suffered from a reputation of poor quality, but it has improved remarkably in recent years - without offsetting the festive side of the event.

16 November 2023

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Beaujolais Nouveau wine celebrates a smaller but higher quality

In Beaujeu, the epicentre of the vineyard, music, fireworks and festivities marked the arrival of the wine.

17 November 2022

Food and Drink

France celebrates the first bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau 2022

At just after midnight, the first bottle of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau was opened in France despite a lower production because of bad weather

17 November 2022

Food and Drink

France's Beaujolais Nouveau wine 2021 edition starts in Beaujeu

Every year, hundreds of wine lovers are eagerly awaiting the festival celebrated in the sleepy village of Beaujeu, some 50 kilometres north of Lyon.

18 November 2021

Food and Drink

Beaujolais Nouveau: Banana-flavoured bargain or blight on the region?

Few can argue that the concept of Beaujolais Nouveau has put the Gamay-making region on the map, but the winemaking here is more than just a barrel of laughs.

17 November 2021

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Paris restaurateur serves up Beaujolais Nouveau to forget COVID crisis

For one Paris restaurant, not even a national coronavirus lockdown could stop locals enjoying a Beaujolais Nouveau.

19 November 2020

World

Winegrowers warn of 25% drop in sales of Beaujolais Nouveau this year

Every November, the opening of Beaujolais Nouveau marks the arrival of a new season in France. It is normally an occasion for celebration. This year, with the closure of restaurants, exports are down and sales have been stifled. But some still have reason to feel hopeful.

19 November 2020

Food and Drink

English winemakers take on the French with their very own 'Nouveau'

A vineyard in the west of England has created the first UK take on Beaujolais Nouveau thanks to increasing summer temperatures.

18 November 2020

France

'Pope of Beaujolais' Georges Duboeuf dies at 86

Georges Duboeuf, 86, suffered a stroke on Saturday afternoon in his home in Romanèche-Thorins, near Lyon, and died soon after, his family said.

5 January 2020

France

Winegrowers release Beaujolais amid challenges at home and abroad

Some growers had their production hit by an untimely frost on the vineyards this year, while Donald Trump's wine tax has complicated the export market

21 November 2019

France

Watch: Beaujolais Nouveau ready for release amid US tariff tension

Beaujolais Nouveau is always released on the third Thursday in November, at 12.01am.

18 November 2019