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Beaujolais Nouveau 2007 & Beaujolais-Villages Nouveau 2007
Le Beaujolais Nouveau est Arrivé!
The wines listed below are now in stock and available for immediate despatch. All orders will be fulfilled subject to availability.
In 2007 we are again offering Beaujolais Nouveau from Jean-Paul Devay, at Le Breuil, in the southern part of the Beaujolais region, and Beaujolais Villages Nouveau from Vincent Lacondemine who is based in Beaujeu. These are high-quality wines from excellent makers - small artisan producers with a passion for quality - and they are completely unlike the wines you will find on the High Street or in supermarkets. They are available for UK delivery from Thursday 15 November 2007, which is the official release date for Beaujolais Nouveau.
2007 Harvest Report - Good start, cool summer, warm September
2007 has again been a very mixed year climatically; a mild winter allowed very early flowering of the vines in mid May, and the hope and expectation of another hot year in the same style as 2003, with an August harvest. In the end however, the summer was cooler than expected, and the harvest took place just slightly ahead of normal in early September. Warm dry weather round the harvest was beneficial for grape maturity and fruit quality. This years's Nouveaux wines are extremely fruity in style; the verdict on the main crop of 2007 Cru Beaujolais wines will have to wait a while, but the vintage is generally thought as being of good or slightly above-average quality.
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Beaujolais Nouveau 2007
Domaine des Pierres Dorées
Jean-Paul Devay
Ref: BN2007
Jean-Paul Devay's estate is at Le Breuil, in the south of the Beaujolais region. The "Pierres Dorées" - golden stones - in the estate's name refers to the local ochre-coloured stone used for building in this area.
Jean-Paul's early assessment of the 2007 vintage is that his wines will be slighty lighter than normal, but extremely fruity.
For my own assessment of this wine, scroll down to my report about my Beaujolais visit in late October.
Normal price £7.50 - sale price just £5.99
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Beaujolais Nouveau 2007
Domaine des Pierres Dorées
Jean-Paul Devay
Ref: BN2007-12
A few whole cases left, now at a special price to clear - equivalent to £5.41/bottle. Price is for a 12-bottle case.
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Beaujolais Villages Nouveau 2007
Vincent Lacondemine
Ref: BVN2007
Vincent Lacondemine makes Beaujolais Villages Nouveau from his youngest vines grown on south-facing slopes around the town of Beaujeu.
M. Lacondemine's comments on his Beaujolais Villages Nouveau 2007...
The vines flowered particularly early in 2007 - between 15 and 20 May, and this gave rise to the hope of an extremely early harvest in late August, but cool weather in the early summer meant that it took more than 105 days after flowering for the grapes to arrive at proper maturity, and a September harvest resulted. Nevertheless, 2007 still ranks as an early harvest, and the warm sunshine of early September gave dry conditions around the harvest and today (written 16 October) the fermentation has ended and the resulting wine has excellent fruit/acid balance. A vivid purple with powerful and complex aromas of red fruit, soft and smooth on the palate.
For my own assessment of this wine, scroll down to my report about my Beaujolais visit in late October.
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Beaujolais Villages Nouveau 2007
Vincent Lacondemine
Ref: BVN2007-12
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£75.00
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Beaujolais Visit, last week in October 2007
Vincent Lacondemine
"Come around 11am on Wednesday to see the bottling" Vincent Lacondemine had said on the phone. "I won't be able to spend much time with you then, but you can come back Thursday for a proper tasting." This invitation to observe the bottling of his 2007 Nouveau was a welcome diversion from the seemingly non-stop round of tastings I had been engaged with during my Beaujolais trip. So along I went. When I got there, a multitude of white vans outside the
chais
signalled hectic activity around the small white mobile bottling plant, with it's attendant pipes, crates of bottles, and men in overalls. This kind of thing isn't really unusual in rural France - few small vignerons can justify investing in their own bottling plant, so use the services of a bottle-filling specialist, who owns and operates the machinery, on just a few days of the year. A very concerned looking M.Lacondemine emerged, dressed in entirely appropriate burgundy red overalls, to greet me, but all was not well.
"C'est catastrophe"
he said - there was some problem with the bottling machine, and the repair men had been working on it since 8am without success. 5000 litres of Beaujolais Villages Nouveau had to be bottled that day, and there were orders to be prepared (including mine). I could see just 2 bottles of wine had been filled. Feeling somewhat useless and in the way, I made my excuses and left, with an invitation to return that afternoon. I went back around 3pm, and this time a beaming M. Lacondemine welcomed me politely, talking loudly over the sound of the bottling machine clunking and hissing away at a rate of knots. Crates of filled bottles were to be seen. All was at last well. When I returned the next day, M. Lacondemine told me that everything had eventually gone well, and they had finally finished the bottling by around 5pm. Then down to the business of tasting. Apart from his excellent Beaujolais Villages Nouveau, he also makes a traditional Beajolais Villages, a rather special Beaujolais Villages called Les Larmoïses, from the vineyard of the same name, comprising 80-100 year old vines, a delectable rosé, and for the first time in 2006 a stunning white Beaujolais Villages made from a tiny parcel of Chardonnay vines. The Nouveau was as ever spectacular - a vivid purple with a nose of red fruits - redcurrant and strawberry - and very fruity, soft and smooth on the palate, eminently gulpable. Very much like last years's wine, in fact. M. Lacondemine was quick to point out that the wine had only been filtered and bottled 24 hours earlier, and that the effects of this would be to depress the flavours somewhat, and that when the wine had stabilised it would become more open.
Jean-Paul Devay
No bottling problems for Jean-Paul Devay, down at Le Breuil, in the southern part of the Beaujolais region. He had completed the bottling of his wines a few days before I visited, and my order was already boxed up awaiting shipping. So it was just a case of tasting and discussing the wines. Jean-Paul makes a "straight" traditional Beaujolais, his "Doyenne" oak-aged Beaujolais in good years, and a white, as well as the Nouveau. For the first time this year he has also dabbled with a rosé. The Nouveau this year is packed with fruit, has a hint of spice, that classic nouveau bubble-gummy nose, and will slip down a treat. As with M. Lacondemine's wine, tasting shortly after the filtration and bottling processes does not show the wines at their best, and a little bottle time is needed for them to stabilise.
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