12.11.2010 - Vinexpo news selection
This year’s Beaujolais Nouveau will be available from midnight on Thursday 18 November. Tradition requires that we find flavours for this new brew that everyone will be able to discuss. This year, it is notes of raspberry, wild strawberry and redcurrant that must be discerned.
Last year, 114,275 hectolitres or 15.2 million bottles were sold. Outside France, the Japanese are the major drinkers, having consumed 6 million bottles in 2009, a long way ahead of the Americans, who downed 2.3 million bottles and Germany, where 1.3 million bottles were drunk. (Wine-presse.info / 2 November 2010)