Château de Belleverne Beaujolais Nouveau, Beaujolais Villages 2025
- Region
- Beaujolais, France
- Vintage:
- 2025
- Producer:
- Boutinot
- Grapes:
- Gamay
Wine Description:
Bright and crunchy red fruits, fresh acidity, and gentle tannins. Light but not inconsequential, this is the perfect vin de soif for any occasion.
Released each year on the 3rd Thursday of November, Nouveau is the first wine of the vintage. The style is thought to date back to the nineteenth century when winemakers would ferment their wines in casks while en route to Lyon to celebrate the harvest. Although it is made quickly – it takes about twenty-five days from harvest to bottling – Beaujolais Nouveau is neither a cheap nor an easy wine to produce. Grapes are predominantly hand picked because whole bunches are required for carbonic maceration. Thanks to the incredibly short time between harvesting the grapes and drinking the wine, there is no opportunity for complex secondary or tertiary flavours to develop and therefore the grapes must be of top quality because they are pretty much all that you taste. As a result, many top Beaujolais producers see Nouveau as the purest reflection of their terroir.Producer Description
Boutinot's story starts in 1972 and Paul Boutinot, having had a brief flirtation with shifting half a tonne of bricks up and down a ladder, decided the glamour of the building industry wasn’t for him. Paul quickly got into something else: wine.
After five years learning his trade in London, he headed back up north to Greater Manchester to join his father’s successful restaurant business. Frustrated with the quality of wine that could be sourced in the UK, Paul took matters into his own hands. He hired a van, trundled over to France, picked up some wine (it was legal back then) and sold it back in his parents’ restaurant.
Paul's reputation quickly begin to grow and it wasn't long before other restaurants were asking for him to sell them wine and the company was started in 1980 as a wine supplier. Boutinot have furthered their reputation for great value wines by starting to produce wines themselves. They have partnered with Italian producer Adria Vini, have their own vineyard holdings and winery in France and vineyards in South Africa, and now a large percentage of Boutinot's portfolio is their own production.
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