PARIS – The wine world’s best-known party is beginning – the ritual uncorking of Beaujolais Nouveau every November. That’s both a curse and a blessing for the famed French region and its lesser-known ...

In a few weeks, you’ll see store displays with the colorful packaging of Beaujolais nouveau. Nouveau, or “new,” is the first wine of vintage, rushed from vine to bottle to shelf. It’s fruity, fun and ...

From the sandy granite soils of the Les Thorins lieu-dit, this wine shows bright red cherry and raspberry, rose petal, and a ...

Typically, winemaking and the phrase “warp speed” don’t go together. But Beaujolais nouveau is not your typical wine. It goes from grapes to glass in a matter of weeks. “The ultimate challenge of the ...

With both Thanksgiving and The Wasatch Food & Wine Society’s 26th Annual Nouveau Beaujolais Festival at Deer Valley (see Essentials) looming just around the corner, I thought it proper to take another ...

Beaujolais Nouveau wines bring out the best in people. Released the third Thursday of November each year, these playful red wines feature grapes harvested just a few months ago. No wonder so many ...

“Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive!” So goes the cry when, on the third Thursday of November, the light, fruity wine is released at midnight. Made from 100 percent gamay, the purple-hued, juicy wine is ...

Beaujolais. Just say it. Bo-zho-lay. Do you feel French? You should. It just feels good to say the name of one of the most famous wines in the world. And next Thursday, on Nov. 15, the release of the ...

WASHINGTON — Like the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano or the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, there are certain events in life that you can just count on. In the wine world, it is ...