On the third thursday of November every year, the world starts drinking rubbish wine. In one of the biggest cons in the wine world, people flock to try the first of the European releases from that year's harvest.Now originally, this wine was intended to celebrate the end of the harvest, and drunk by local people. That is fine, as they were so knackered they really just needed to get drunk. And to be honest, if I was visiting Beaujolais and they put a glass of Nouveau in my hand, I'd probably drink it quite happily. However, by the time everything is paid for (transport, production, profit etc) this wine is over £7.00 per bottle, and that makes things different. Now, it is up against other wines and that means, and I say this with the utmost respect to all the producers, that it is overpriced rubbish.
Tasting the Georges Duboeuf 2008, you get partially dissolved strawberry jelly cubes, a little fresh raspberry and a lot of thin, bubblegum flavoured jelly beans. The palate is more of the jelly beans but with cheap vodka and then watered down with some cookie dough ice cream. Essentially, it is crap.
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