I have always been a big fan of Beaujolais. It is usually a simple, pleasant, easy drinking wine. This is especially true of Beaujolais Nouveau. But is it just me or when you taste a Nouveau shortly after release can you still smell the yeast and taste yeast in the wine. I recently had a 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau Villages (Georges Duboeuf) that I purchased at the very end of November and I drank in December. It had a rich deep red color but with my first sniff – yeast (yes I could smell the fruit too, but there was definitely a yeasty smell). Same thing with the first sip – fruit and yeast.
This is not the first time this has happened to me. I have found in the past that if I let the bottle hang around for another month or two, the yeast smells and flavors are gone.
So the wine is meant to be consumed young, but maybe not as young as right after release? For me, I’m almost always happier with it come January of February than in November and December.
Tasted the Georges Dubouef before Thanksgiving. I got alot of banana and some finger nail polish. Thought maybe worst I ever had. May try again in spring. Never gave it a thought about being too young.
[...] Wine, Wine ReviewTravelin' the Wine Road0 comments Back in December I wrote about tasting a 2009 Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau Villages. At that time I did not like the wine (as others attested at the time – my favorite being the [...]