Beaujolais Nouveau

It could have been a "bad" week(smile)

As Mark can tell you there's so much that can go wrong in a wine made by carbonic maceration. As for the price, it sounds excessive---was it flown in or shipped? Back in my merchant days there was a premium for shipping by air.

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This year was one of the worst I have ever tasted. It had a dirty nose and taste kind of cherries mixed with garbage. Not at all appealing.

A fine description. I forced myself through a glass of the Nouveau while cooking Thanksgiving Dinner. (Kids. . .don't try that at home!). I thought it tasted like Maraschino Cherry Juice with some neutral acid added to kill some of the sweetness. It had a weak but unpleasant nose, no body, no finish. It was the worst in memory.

There have been some good ones, mind you. This year's DeBouef was horrible.

Had the DeBouef and reported on it in Chowhound. It was marginal and nothing but some strawberry. I have several othes, but have not had time to crack 'em open. Did notice that DeBouef has gone to a synthetic cork, "corque?" I'll reserve my comments until further review.

Hunt

So? Whats the early advantage of a real cork in something you're supposed to consume immediately.

cork, schmork it sounds a flaw in the winemaking or shipping occurred---DeBouef no longer can skip a vintage--their importer(Wm Deutch?) would never let them---too many pre-orders.

What I suggest is return>

Joe,

I haven't a clue. This was just the first time that I had encountered this with a N-BJ. I did miss a few years, so it might not be THAT recent a development. For these wines, I think that Stelvin would be ideal, but who knows?

Hunt

Sorry Ron,

I saw Joe's comment in the From column and thought that I was responding to him. I apologize.

Hunt

Joe (finally got the responses correct - I think), I'd be hard-pressed to return a bottle of N-BJ, unless it was lethal (some might claim that *all* N- BJs are... ). As I replied to Ron (thinking it was you), I did miss a few "vintages" there, for a while, so I am anything but an expert. Normally, I'll gather a few btls. of several producers and down them all in a few weeks. Most are pleasing in their lightness and bright fruit - nothing to wax poetic about. On the Chowhound post, I realized that I had written more words about N-BJ that all other articles on the same subject in 20 years, and the DeBouef wasn't all that good! Go figure.

Now, I do have a bottle of Carton, that I need to return to K&L, but 1 btl. out of three cases isn't all that bad.

Hunt

I'm not sure I would have liked this in a hot toddy or Sangria. I found it to be very disagreeable juice and I no longer buy Beujolais Nouveau because the quality of it was never that good and it has dropped steadily. At least at a free tasting I'm out nothing but offended taste buds but if I had put out the $9-11 this is going for I would have been angry.