Warm welcome and  excellent winemaking wait in Beaujolais

I’m writing about Beaujolais again this week partly because I am finding myself drinking more and more wines from this region and also because I spent a fascinating few days there in early April.

Driving up and down this region (it is just 55km from north to south) was hugely pleasurable, not just because of the beautiful landscape with rolling hills that rival Tuscany, but also thanks to the warm welcome and generally excellent standard of winemaking.

Beaujolais has 12 appellations with basic Beaujolais followed by Beaujolais Villages and then 10 Cru villages.