09 Beaujolais Nouveau

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Fun evening at Le Pichet.

The Brun is just outstanding. Layered, fruit and earth. How could this be Nouveau? Really charming, but with a serious edge. Maybe the best Nouveau I've ever had. Would be a great wine for Thanksgiving. Don't want to turn it into something it's not, but it was a really nice fun wine.

The Chermette - more typical Nouveau. Brainless drinking.

Happy 09!
 
We had the Dom. Cotes de la Moliere and Chateau du Chatelard nouveaus last evening. They were both quite lovely and in my opinion great examples of sound natural winemaking that are easy to enjoy. The Moliere was the juicier one with great color and nice aromas. The Chatelard was a touch more serious with more underlying mineral and chalk components. Had i not known it was nouveau i may not have guessed it was. We also cracked a bottle of 2008 Moliere Nouveau that i had put down for a year on a lark to see what it did. It needed a bit of time to open up, but once it did i really enoyed it. It had lovely fruit on the nose with a nice fleshy if tart cranberry finish. Others were a bit freaked out by it, at least at first, but it grew on them, i think. As a wine that is well made, w/o sulfites, etc. i thought it was a worthy experiment and a tasty one at that. I think im gonna lay down a bottle of the Chatelard this year and see how in does next time around. mmm, nothin like Vielle Beaujolais Nouveau!

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on a side note i do think that these "quality" nouveaus demonstrate the health of this acclaimed new burgundy vintage...looking forward to the real wines in a years time or so.
 
Was great. Had a few glasses with salad frise at the bar at Vin Rouge.

No reason to hate on this wine and as a leading indicator of 2009 vintage in Beaujolais, it should have folks excited.
 
Grabbed a bottle of the Dupeuble Nouveau on my way home last night. Simple, easy, not as red-candyish as other Nouveau. I'm curious to try a glass tonight as it seemed to be more together after an hour or so. And lest you be so lazy that you can't turn a bottle over to look at the back label, this had a sticker on the front saying: IMPORTED BY KERMIT LYNCH. Taking 'who imports the wine is important' to a new level.
 
originally posted by VLM:
Vissoux VV Nouveau
Was great. Had a few glasses with salad frise at the bar at Vin Rouge.

No reason to hate on this wine and as a leading indicator of 2009 vintage in Beaujolais, it should have folks excited.
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Does he have two Nouveaus? Is this the one with the guy in the clown suit or whatever it is on the front? Or is this the "Primeur VV" on his typical label?
 
originally posted by Brad L i l j e q u i s t:
originally posted by VLM:
Vissoux VV Nouveau
Was great. Had a few glasses with salad frise at the bar at Vin Rouge.

No reason to hate on this wine and as a leading indicator of 2009 vintage in Beaujolais, it should have folks excited.
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Does he have two Nouveaus? Is this the one with the guy in the clown suit or whatever it is on the front? Or is this the "Primeur VV" on his typical label?
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Yes, and it is the latter.
 
I still have a little stash of the 08 VV Primeur and even tho it's under plastique it's great and primordial.
 
Do you guys see unfiltered VV in the US?

I have not tasted any Nouveau of Chermette's since 2007, but believe I liked it, then.

But, rois et peuples de la Grce (pace Offenbach): 09 is smokin' hot.
 
originally posted by VLM:
Vissoux VV Nouveau
Was great. Had a few glasses with salad frise at the bar at Vin Rouge.

No reason to hate on this wine and as a leading indicator of 2009 vintage in Beaujolais, it should have folks excited.
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Was this the Vissoux Les Griottes? I am just back in Sydney and that is what is on offer here. No mention of VV.

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Now that VLM said Primeur rather than Nouveau VV, I think I can safely say no. The Griottes is a different deal.

I haven't had the Griottes rouge but the rose is super.

I'm sure Mr. Chermette would be reassured that somewhere on the planet, a small group of geeks actually cared.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Tom Blach:
I always understood that the best Nouveau came from poor vintages. Have I been misinformed?
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What is the logic behind that claim?
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Well, just to spitball, a poor vintage would be comprised of lesser grapes. Grapes that are, in turn, either sold off to negociants or just made into quickly fermented adult Kool-aid.

Bad vintage = lots of juice needing some place to go.
 
So if they are lesser grapes why would that make the Nouveau better? Because in a better year producers have incentives to keep all the better grapes for 'regular' bottlings? Still not sure how that makes the Nouveau better in a worse year.
 
The only way I can interpret it is that the grapes unloaded by better growers in worse years end up improving the quality of Nouveaux released by crappy producers, who must otherwise release crappy Nouveau from crappy grapes. I guess.

Obviously, the problem can be avoided by not drinking crappy producers in the first place, but I don't want to tell people what to drink. (Wait...)
 
Would anyone care to admit that 2009, on early results, is an excellent vintage?

Chermette's Primeur and Veilles Vignes Nouveau wines are wonderful, especially the VV. Had it last night with roast chicken, a match made in...I don't believe in Heaven...maybe Lyons?

The Drouhin is not my favorite, but it does have a big, aromatic nose.
 
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