IT IS BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I reviewed the 2014 Beaujolais Nouveau on DAY 2 of this
blog. 2014 review here
We were lucky
enough last November to happen into a Trader Joe’s at exactly the right moment
to snag some. But THIS YEAR, ohhhh this
year we were PREPARED!!! We knew
Beaujolais Nouveau Day was the 3rd Thursday of November and so
marked it on our calendars!!! I called
TJ’s that night at 9:00 PM (we had one hour to rush over if it was in stock)
but they said, “Nope, not yet! We will
have it on the shelves tomorrow…”.
So you can bet your sweet bippy that on Friday evening as
soon as we could we got ourselves to Trader Joe’s! We marched in and said (sorta loudly), “HAPPY
BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU!!!” and they smiled and said, “It’s over there!”.
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| THE DANCE OF THE BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU!! |
Ahhhh… David in
the wine department (Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia) was friendly and
helpful. We snagged 6 bottles and of
course drank one with dinner!!
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| Grab them while you can!!!! |
Here is what we thought:
THIS WINE IS NICE. It is super
fruity. It smells and tastes like JAM
(but jam in a good way, I am not a jam fan (like, jam on toast) but THIS KIND
OF JAM I can get behind!! David kept
saying it tasted “fresh”. Thing we
smiled, realizing how much marketing influences taste. Can we really TASTE the “fresh” or do we associate
that word with this type of wine since that is how it is sold to us? Who knows – either way it is delicious!
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| It is not a pretentious wine, we went with a traditional French glass. You can drink it out of anything - just DRINK IT! |
What is all boils down to is this: I think we like this
wine as much for the EVENT as for the TASTE.
It is a fun thing to celebrate – WINE!
Isn’t nice to set aside a day each year to be happy about wine??? We have a day for nurses, a day for
Grandparents, a day for bosses, shouldn’t there be a day for wine?
And sure, you can find this wine in other stores, but it will
cost more. And the people who sell it to you will not be
as excited about it as the wine guys at TJ’s are.
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| Looks like they ever wrote a bit fancier on this price sign - even the sign maker must be excited! |
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| This year's label is pretty, no? |
Each TJ’s only has a few cases and it will sell out quickly. The store we were at said theirs would be
gone this weekend. SO GO TODAY. Get a bottle or two. Have a toast to wine, to France, and to
life. L’Chaim!
If you want to learn more about Beaujolais Nouveau, see
these articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaujolais_nouveau
Price - $9.99
Rating – 4.75
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