Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!
I don’t think anyone’s ever accused the French of not finding a reason to celebrate. This morning just after the stroke of midnight, millions of bottles of wine from the Beaujolais region of France began their journey around the world - the first wine of this year’s harvest. It’s a tradition that’s carried out the third Thursday of November every year. Supposedly the restaurants and cafés will really be hopping tonight as everyone gets their first taste of this year’s vintage.
Unlike regular red wine on most other days of the year, tonight the wine will be gulped not sipped. And if the skies continue to clear and drizzle ceases, supposedly we’ll awaken to see the red liquid flowing through the city’s streets following a Parisian bacchanalia!