Mike at The Naked Vine today offers a nicely succinct post about how the tradition of Beaujolais Nouveau began. Plus, he reviews two of this year’s labels, Georges DuBeouf and Joseph Drouhin, and adds his thoughts about BNs. It’s a worthwhile read.
I’ll be sharing results from last Friday’s tasting of 2006 Nouveaux sometime over the […]

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OK, so since I’ve been lately in the mode of offering “Top 100″ lists, I felt compelled — inspired! — to list one hundred things about myself, simply for your enjoyment. Contrary to popular local belief, nobody paid me to assemble the following list.

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Wine Spectator publishes 2006 list of Top 100 Wines
Search no further, because the oft-awaited 2006 Top 100 Wines list is here in all its radiant splendor.
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Looks like a lot of folks are searching for today’s Top 100 Wines list from Wine Spectator magazine.
Well, search no further, because here it is in all its radiant splendor. Just click the following images to expand them for viewing, or navigate to the Wine Spectator website to see the list in PDF form and […]

****** UPDATE: The Wine Spectator has now published their 2006 Top 100 Wines list. See my follow-on post.
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Each year, the editors at Wine Spectator magazine survey the wines they’ve reviewed over the past year and select what they feel are the “most exciting” for their list of the Top 100 wines of the year.

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From today’s edition of the Wine Making Journal: What is unique about the production of ice wines? Since I’ll be hosting an Eiswein tasting next month, I’ve been curiously reading. Perhaps you’re curious, too.
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“Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!”
Frivolous. Animated. Ritualistic. No, it’s not a carnival I’m describing, nor a seance conducted in the Halls of the U.S. Congress — it’s the third Thursday of November.
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As a follow-on to my previous post, Beau Jarvis over at Basic Juice offers a fairly detailed perspective about the other wines and Crus of the Beaujolais region — a “Wine 101: Beau Knows Beau-jo-lais”, if you will.
As a lead-in to a discussion of the better wines of Beaujolais, Beau writes:
This past summer I came […]