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I found this interesting enough to share. Distillers are so vain. Think about it. All the best hooch is named after a person. If you would like to know more about the name on the label, click here. I would never name a whiskey after myself. I’m not sure Weezer Whiskey could ever be taken seriously, regardless of how good it was.
And I’m not talking about the holidays. We had the pleasure of sampling a couple varieties of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau Thursday night before Pentasul’s Christmas Dinner. I have to applaud the marketing they’ve done with this wine. When we popped the cork, I felt like a little kid seeing his first Santa Claus of the season. This year’s Georges Deboeuf is wonderful! Someday, Fiona and I will plan a trip to France and participate in the “race” described below. This year, I’m venturing to Spec’s for a case.
As the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, the new vintage of Beaujolais , Beaujolais Nouveau, is released to the world! Over 60 million bottles make the trek to Paris for worldwide distribution, of which Germany is the leading importer. This is a young wine (only 6 weeks old), grown from the Gamay grape, and is very fruity, light-bodied, and virtually tannin-free making for an extremely easy-to-drink red wine. It is best served chilled to really bring the fruit forward and is a popular complement to Thanksgiving dinners, in part due to its annual release date and in part due to its food-friendliness.
According to a French law passed in 1985, Beaujolais Nouveau may not be released earlier than the third Thursday of November. As a result, tradition and custom have set in to make the annual release race of this much loved wine a fun-filled event. Starting with the hand-picking of the grapes in the Beaujolais growing region (part of Burgundy ), followed by carbonic maceration, pressing, and fermentation and on to speedy bottling all to culminate in the midnight release on the third Thursday of November. Next vintners race to see whose Beaujolais Nouveau will be the first to fill the bars and bistros of the world awaiting the new vintage. They have employed all methods of transport as part of the fun and sport – from trucks to trains, jets to hot air balloons to rush their vintage to the front of the uncorking lines. Banners proclaiming, “Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive!” – “The New Beaujolais has arrived!” are scattered throughout wine shops, enticing those who are seeking a light-hearted, fruit-filled wine to decorate their holiday tables, and for a mere $6-10 a bottle, the decoration comes fairly cheap!
The above information was pasted from an email my wife sent out to a friend asking for a good Thanksgiving wine. I would give proper citation, but I have no idea where she found it.
