Wine with Leslie: Beaujolais release day coming up
Mention Beaujolais to most people and they will immediately assume you mean Beaujolais Nouveau, I really wish they wouldn’t. Beaujolais these days is a serious wine region and one of the centres of the 'Natural Wine' movement (many say they invented the concept).
Beaujolais Nouveau is the light, barely fermented wine of the new vintage and the production methods for Beaujolais make it particularly suitable for early bottling. Beaujolais is not the only region to release young wine, in Nantes every Autumn for example you will find ‘Bourru’ — a lightly sparkling, cloudy and delicious half-fermented Muscadet perfect for enjoying with buckwheat (blé-noir) crêpes instead of cider.
