Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé! A lovely wine region of France

[Tripatini]

Throughout the year, the calendars of wine lovers are filled with all manner of momentous dates, of harvests, vintage releases, festivals, and more. And since the 1980s, few have been more heralded than the annual third-Thursday-of-November release of the young red wine made from Gamay grapes grown in the granitic soils in the hills of France‘s Beaujolais region, an easy drive north of Lyon and straddling the Rhône-Alps and Burgundy regions.

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