beaujolais day tomorrow!!
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krusty

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2,473 posts

277 months

Wednesday 14th November 2012
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Thought I'd revive something I used to do 20 years ago and go for Beaujolais Breakfast tomorrow but it looks as if it’s a thing of the past..... Can't find anywhere offering it.....
Guess it’ll just be a glass of the nouveau tomorrow night after work..........

Truckosaurus

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312 months

Wednesday 14th November 2012
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blueg33

46,168 posts

252 months

Wednesday 14th November 2012
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Hateful stuff

A French marketing ploy to sell the crap wine that won't mature properly to the Brits. They must piss themselves laughing every year, along with the fellows that charge £30 per bottle for Moet non vintage

Davey S2

13,394 posts

282 months

Wednesday 14th November 2012
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blueg33 said:
Hateful stuff

A French marketing ploy to sell the crap wine that won't mature properly to the Brits. They must piss themselves laughing every year, along with the fellows that charge £30 per bottle for Moet non vintage
This.

The last one I went to people had one glass of it (most not finished) then went on to Rioja for the rest of the afternoon.

anonymous-user

82 months

Wednesday 14th November 2012
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Yes, beaujolais is disgusting, sour, slightly fizzy crap. I once had to endure some tt at my graduation ball telling me how the wine was pretty crap at the ball. It was £10 a bottle in a hotel and was only there for getting smashed. He then proceeded to tell me that his dad was really keen on beaujolais and had bought a whole case of it when he went to France. COOOOL STORY BRO.

blueg33

46,168 posts

252 months

Wednesday 14th November 2012
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bulldong said:
Yes, beaujolais is disgusting, sour, slightly fizzy crap. I once had to endure some tt at my graduation ball telling me how the wine was pretty crap at the ball. It was £10 a bottle in a hotel and was only there for getting smashed. He then proceeded to tell me that his dad was really keen on beaujolais and had bought a whole case of it when he went to France. COOOOL STORY BRO.
Beaujolais can be ok, its the Noveau stuff thats suitable only for making cheap vinegar

Rude Girl

6,937 posts

287 months

Wednesday 14th November 2012
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blueg33 said:
Beaujolais can be ok, its the Noveau stuff thats suitable only for making cheap vinegar
Phew - I thought I was going to be the only one to say I prefer using Asda white vinegar to clean the washing machine.

I do remember Beaujolais Nouveau day being a big deal back in the '80s though.

krusty

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277 months

Wednesday 14th November 2012
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Rude said:
I do remember Beaujolais Nouveau day being a big deal back in the '80s though.
Hello RG... Hope you and Pod are well.... That was the bit I was trying to get across..... Romance and danger......I remember (in my early 20's) people racing through the night from the UK aiming to be the first people to bring back the Beaujolais and how I longed (when rich enough) to jump in the Bentley and blast through Europe to join the Gentlemen's club....
Sort of did it in a Tuscan in the 2004 Eurohoon as the final day ended at the Moët Chateaux but I think it's all passed me by... The fact that Every day good French wine is so easily available (and that everyone has cottoned on to the fact that the Beaujolais Nouveau isn't) has ruined the whole event.....
Sad but true..... Anyway, tomorrow I shall buy a bottle of 2012 B.N. and toast the past over a plate of Escargot.... Both being available in Waitrose 10 minutes up the road....

Dogwatch

6,379 posts

250 months

Wednesday 14th November 2012
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I think the Chinese are quietly buying up French vinyards. Quelle Horreur! Quelle dommage!!!

However the French are moving across the Channel to English vinyards. OMG!!!

Rude Girl

6,937 posts

287 months

Thursday 15th November 2012
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krusty said:
Sad but true..... Anyway, tomorrow I shall buy a bottle of 2012 B.N. and toast the past over a plate of Escargot.... Both being available in Waitrose 10 minutes up the road....
You know what, I think we'll join you. Except we're having chilli tonight... Sacrilege!!