When, shortly before midnight, large wine barrels rolls through Lyon, is one of the most important days in the French cultural calendar: The Beaujolais Nouveau goes on sale.
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11 fascinating facts about wine
The young wine
If the barrels roll by Lyon, November: From the third Thursday of the month of the Beaujolais Nouveau is allowed to be uncorked, and sold to be drank. The wine of the same name, growing area, close to Lyon, was the first who was allowed to be in the year of his harvest is sold. Stuck-up experts-compacted him for low quality, its global popularity could be the harm but nothing.
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11 fascinating facts about wine
The steepest vineyard in Europe
On the Moselle to the small wine village is Bremm. Here is the mount Calmont, with a height of 300 meters and a slope of up to 60 degrees is nothing for people with fear of heights. In fact, the Calmont, the steepest vineyard in Europe.
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11 fascinating facts about wine
The largest wine festival in the world
On the Dürkheimer sausage market you are not squeamish with the portions. This is the Oktoberfest for wine drinkers in the Palatinate town of Bad Dürkheim, it is not the usual glasses, but also gives a direct correctly. We would like to have a conversation with the Chancellor, after such a glass of time… in addition to many celebs nearly 700,000 visitors come here every year in September.
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11 fascinating facts about wine
This Queen must be drinking
Each wine-growing area, something keeps on selects for a year was the highest representative of the wine Queen. She is of full age and an average of 25 years old. Until 1999, a wine Queen was not allowed to be married. The same is not true now. But: The candidate must demonstrate a “clear and strong ties with German wines”.
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11 fascinating facts about wine
Why not a wine-king?
As in the summer of 2016, no wine Queen has been found, jumped in the law student Sven Finke-Bender as the Roman wine God Bacchus. Now he is the baton – again, to a woman. Two great years had it been, the Student, in retrospect, but after 200 dates, it was enough. His conclusion: “I can’t do better than women, but just as good.”
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11 fascinating facts about wine
The finest drops
Baron de Rothschild has commissioned between 1945 and 2006, each year a different artist to design the labels of its wines. Names such as Picasso, Kandinsky, Warhol and Chagall, have helped to ensure that the bottles have a high collector’s value. So this 1945er Mouton has been auctioned Rothschild in 2006 for 28.750 million US dollars (approximately EUR 23,000).
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11 fascinating facts about wine
What makes ice wine so special
Risk and challenge for every winemaker: The grapes remain on the vine until you get to the first Frost. In the freezing winter nights, they are harvested in a frozen state in the press promoted. The wine is thick, sweet and aromatic, with a fine acid. German ice wines, a world-renowned delicacy and are often served for Dessert.
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11 fascinating facts about wine
In the North it gets too cold
In Germany, the 52. Latitude as the Arctic circle of the German wine-growing. There about the place Werder is located in the state of Brandenburg, is considered to be officially the most northerly wine-growing region in the world. But it goes even further North: In Finland, for example, using a nuclear power plant: The warm water of the cooling system is directed through plastic tubes and keeps the ground under the vines frost.
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11 fascinating facts about wine
White wine or red wine?
White wine, of course! Or? Maybe it is a red wine! If it is so, then it is called “Blanc de Noir” and is nothing more than a white pressed red grape. The shell is removed from red grapes, the juice and the flesh is pale. The wine is low in acidity and easy to digest. The model of the French champagne is often made from red Pinot Noir grapes.
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11 fascinating facts about wine
Baden: highest wine-growing region of Germany
“The German wine – pampered by the sun” is an old advertising slogan. The southwest is the sunniest region of Germany. Here famous wines such as Riesling or Pinot Noir to thrive. With 560 metres of the Hohentwieler Olga Berg is the highest growing area. However, it is still much higher. At the winery Colomé in Argentina’s Salta the wine growing vine in 3.111 meters in height.
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11 fascinating facts about wine
Why German wine-American roots
Around 1850, the American phylloxera arrived in Europe and began a work of destruction. It spread in all the wine areas and destroyed over decades, the harvest. There was only one solution: to cross The sensitive European wine with the lice resistant plants from America by grafted seedlings, to roots. Et voilà! The European wine was saved. Until today.
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11 fascinating facts about wine
The young wine
If the barrels roll by Lyon, November: From the third Thursday of the month of the Beaujolais Nouveau is allowed to be uncorked, and sold to be drank. The wine of the same name, growing area, close to Lyon, was the first who was allowed to be in the year of his harvest is sold. Stuck-up experts-compacted him for low quality, its global popularity could be the harm but nothing.
-
11 fascinating facts about wine
The steepest vineyard in Europe
On the Moselle to the small wine village is Bremm. Here is the mount Calmont, with a height of 300 meters and a slope of up to 60 degrees is nothing for people with fear of heights. In fact, the Calmont, the steepest vineyard in Europe.
-
11 fascinating facts about wine
The largest wine festival in the world
On the Dürkheimer sausage market you are not squeamish with the portions. This is the Oktoberfest for wine drinkers in the Palatinate town of Bad Dürkheim, it is not the usual glasses, but also gives a direct correctly. We would like to have a conversation with the Chancellor, after such a glass of time… in addition to many celebs nearly 700,000 visitors come here every year in September.
-
11 fascinating facts about wine
This Queen must be drinking
Each wine-growing area, something keeps on selects for a year was the highest representative of the wine Queen. She is of full age and an average of 25 years old. Until 1999, a wine Queen was not allowed to be married. The same is not true now. But: The candidate must demonstrate a “clear and strong ties with German wines”.
-
11 fascinating facts about wine
Why not a wine-king?
As in the summer of 2016, no wine Queen has been found, jumped in the law student Sven Finke-Bender as the Roman wine God Bacchus. Now he is the baton – again, to a woman. Two great years had it been, the Student, in retrospect, but after 200 dates, it was enough. His conclusion: “I can’t do better than women, but just as good.”
-
11 fascinating facts about wine
The finest drops
Baron de Rothschild has commissioned between 1945 and 2006, each year a different artist to design the labels of its wines. Names such as Picasso, Kandinsky, Warhol and Chagall, have helped to ensure that the bottles have a high collector’s value. So this 1945er Mouton has been auctioned Rothschild in 2006 for 28.750 million US dollars (approximately EUR 23,000).
-
11 fascinating facts about wine
What makes ice wine so special
Risk and challenge for every winemaker: The grapes remain on the vine until you get to the first Frost. In the freezing winter nights, they are harvested in a frozen state in the press promoted. The wine is thick, sweet and aromatic, with a fine acid. German ice wines, a world-renowned delicacy and are often served for Dessert.
-
11 fascinating facts about wine
In the North it gets too cold
In Germany, the 52. Latitude as the Arctic circle of the German wine-growing. There about the place Werder is located in the state of Brandenburg, is considered to be officially the most northerly wine-growing region in the world. But it goes even further North: In Finland, for example, using a nuclear power plant: The warm water of the cooling system is directed through plastic tubes and keeps the ground under the vines frost.
-
11 fascinating facts about wine
White wine or red wine?
White wine, of course! Or? Maybe it is a red wine! If it is so, then it is called “Blanc de Noir” and is nothing more than a white pressed red grape. The shell is removed from red grapes, the juice and the flesh is pale. The wine is low in acidity and easy to digest. The model of the French champagne is often made from red Pinot Noir grapes.
-
11 fascinating facts about wine
Baden: highest wine-growing region of Germany
“The German wine – pampered by the sun” is an old advertising slogan. The southwest is the sunniest region of Germany. Here famous wines such as Riesling or Pinot Noir to thrive. With 560 metres of the Hohentwieler Olga Berg is the highest growing area. However, it is still much higher. At the winery Colomé in Argentina’s Salta the wine growing vine in 3.111 meters in height.
-
11 fascinating facts about wine
Why German wine-American roots
Around 1850, the American phylloxera arrived in Europe and began a work of destruction. It spread in all the wine areas and destroyed over decades, the harvest. There was only one solution: to cross The sensitive European wine with the lice resistant plants from America by grafted seedlings, to roots. Et voilà! The European wine was saved. Until today.
Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé: The wine is named after the wine region of Beaujolais, North of Lyon. The pressed Gamay grapes is fruity and pale and can carry a touch of raspberry, or banana. Unlike most red wines, Beaujolais Nouveau can be particularly well cooled enjoy.
Countdown: the Beaujolais drinker to celebrate the night in Lyon, this year’s sales launch.
It is the first wine of the new vintage, in the trade, he is traditionally on the third Thursday in November. Wine producers from the Beaujolais, through to the beginning of the 1950s against the French wine law: An exception to permit enabling them to sell their wine in the year of its harvest and production – initially on 15. December, later on December 15. November and since 1985 on the third Thursday in November.
Defamation of character is ignored,
Many a connoisseur saw in the circumvention of the wine law and the law cheap prices, the impending doom of the Occident – it was said of the Region, to produce wines of inferior quality. Undeterred, the young wine to an export hit: He is pleasant to the taste and seems to be the sometimes elitist translated the Aura of the wine scene.
Omitted: In Japan, one pours the Beaujolais in a wine bath.
In the night of the third of November-Thursday, the barrels of the roles traditionally through the streets of Lyons. Shortly after midnight, the content of which is emptied with a large Party. Around half of the production leaves the country every year. The largest buyer is Japan, which buys around half of the export quantity and the arrival of commits with some strange rituals: some of the Beaujolais baden-friends omitted in the wine.
Thanks to the time difference, the Japanese can open the new bottles even before the French (unless they were delivered in time for the third November Thursday). In the English-speaking world, the talk among fans and the restaurateurs by the way, the “Beaujolais Day”.
Although Beaujolais should be drunk young, when he is wearing the “nouveau” or “primeur”. Other bottles to survive, however, long-term storage, without prejudice to.
What peculiarities there are in and around the wine otherwise, so that you can view in our photo gallery.