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Joseph Drouhin, Moulin-a-Vent (Beaujolais, Burgundy, France) 2006 ($21, Dreyfus, Ashby & Co.)
Everyone in the corps of wine writers seems to love to love Beaujolais, which is a sentiment that I do not share, as I believe that there's almost always a Pinot from someplace that can do any job better than a Gamay-based wine. Occasionally I hit a wine that gives me pause, and this one had that effect.
It shows very open, expressive aromas and flavors of red cherries that are vivid, pure and pleasingly sweet without being obvious or grapey. Substantial in feel and depth of flavor, I confess that this would be a great choice for a turkey dinner.
88 - Michael Franz
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Beaujolais Wine
In honor of the upcoming Beaujolais happy hour, we thought we'd give a short primer on the wine and region.
Beaujolais is a French wine generally made of the Gamay grape, which has a thin skin and few tannins.
The wine takes its name from the historical Beaujolais province and wine producing region located south of Burgundy proper, between Mācon and Lyon. The region cultivates almost 55,000 acres, more than the other three departments of Burgundy combined, and produces an average of 13 million cases annually.
The vast majority of wines from this region are red wines that tend to be very light-bodied with relatively high amounts of acidity. The wines are produced using semi-carbonic maceration, which extracts the maximum color and aroma from the grape without the astringency associated with red wine.
The most well-know Beaujolais style may be Beaujolais Nouveau, which accounts for a third of the region's production. Nouveau is the lightest, fruitiest style of Beaujolais and is meant for simple drinking within one or two years of bottling. A backlash against Nouveau style wines in the late 1990s has led to a recent rise in the number of terroir driven estate-bottled wines.
Wine expert Karen MacNeil has described Beaujolais as "the only white wine that happens to be red."
That's because Beaujolais wines, which rarely need to be decanted, are often treated like white wines and served slightly chilled.
Read more about Beaujolais wines.
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Top 5 Wines to Drink in November*
- Nouveau Beaujolais
- Zinfandel
- Australian Shiraz
- New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc
- Port
* List published in the Colorado Springs Independent. Courtesy of the National Sports Center for the Disabled, which hosts the annual Rocky Mountain Wine, Beer & Food Festival in Winter Park Colorado.
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