Comments on: Beaujolais Nouveau 2005 http://www.wineweekly.com/wine-reviews/beaujolais-nouveau-2005/ Wine Reviews Tasting Notes and Education for the Non-Snob Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:38:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: vinojoe http://www.wineweekly.com/wine-reviews/beaujolais-nouveau-2005/#comment-9 vinojoe Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:22:12 +0000 http://wineweekly.com/?p=23#comment-9 Well Matt, I'll have to go ahead and uh, disagree with you on your opinion of Nouveau. And you'll have to retract your statement about a serious wine drinker who would touch it, because through this blog we've kind of met, and I'm a serious wine drinker who enjoys Nouveau! On your tannins correction, I'll admit the gaffe and stand corrected. I guess what I was trying to say was that a wine made and bottled in less than a month isn't given the opportunity to spend time macerating with its skins, nor is it given any time to sit in a barrel --- the two chances it has to pick up tannins. After drinking nearly a bottle of Beaujolais while writing the post, I decided "young" was the correct term. How daft of me ... thank you for catching and correcting for the rest of the visitors ! Well Matt, I’ll have to go ahead and uh, disagree with you on your opinion of Nouveau. And you’ll have to retract your statement about a serious wine drinker who would touch it, because through this blog we’ve kind of met, and I’m a serious wine drinker who enjoys Nouveau!

On your tannins correction, I’ll admit the gaffe and stand corrected. I guess what I was trying to say was that a wine made and bottled in less than a month isn’t given the opportunity to spend time macerating with its skins, nor is it given any time to sit in a barrel — the two chances it has to pick up tannins. After drinking nearly a bottle of Beaujolais while writing the post, I decided “young” was the correct term. How daft of me … thank you for catching and correcting for the rest of the visitors !

]]> By: matthk http://www.wineweekly.com/wine-reviews/beaujolais-nouveau-2005/#comment-7 matthk Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:35:13 +0000 http://wineweekly.com/?p=23#comment-7 Come on Joe, Beaujolais Nouveau is generally awful muck, sought out by chumps who "think" it's the cool thing to do. It's rarely nice (or even fun) to drink and it doesn't give the general wine buff an awful lot of a preview of what's to come. In my opinion, it's a way of getting a quick buck from fools. I've not met a serious wine drinker yet who would touch it. Sure, if I was in Beaujolais in November, I WOULD drink Beaujolais Nouveau, but only (as you mentioned) as a 'celebration' of the year to come. But I would almost certainly hate it. You also made an interesting statement: "...Because a wine this young shouldn’t have any tannins..." You must be giddy from guzzling too much Nouveau Joe, as we all know, wine doesn't get it's tannins with age, it gets them from the skin of the grape, and therefore, has all the tannins it's EVER going to have, right there in the bottle from day one. Sure, tannins 'develop' but to say a young wine shouldn't have tannins is, well a bit daft. Come on Joe, Beaujolais Nouveau is generally awful muck, sought out by chumps who “think” it’s the cool thing to do. It’s rarely nice (or even fun) to drink and it doesn’t give the general wine buff an awful lot of a preview of what’s to come. In my opinion, it’s a way of getting a quick buck from fools. I’ve not met a serious wine drinker yet who would touch it. Sure, if I was in Beaujolais in November, I WOULD drink Beaujolais Nouveau, but only (as you mentioned) as a ‘celebration’ of the year to come. But I would almost certainly hate it.

You also made an interesting statement:
“…Because a wine this young shouldn’t have any tannins…”
You must be giddy from guzzling too much Nouveau Joe, as we all know, wine doesn’t get it’s tannins with age, it gets them from the skin of the grape, and therefore, has all the tannins it’s EVER going to have, right there in the bottle from day one. Sure, tannins ‘develop’ but to say a young wine shouldn’t have tannins is, well a bit daft.

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