Comments on: You Can't Teach a New Wine Old Tricks

By: DaveK

DaveK — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:40:53 +0000

Thanks to Google, I found your comments on BN, and its saving me at least $2.99. It’s mid-April, yes my taxes are done, and my favorite liquor store has sent me an email with an online special of Beaujolais Nouveau for $2.99 a bottle, normal price $7.99. I didn’t know what kind of wine this was until I read your column. Thanks for steering me clear of this.

By: Dr. Click

Dr. Click — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:35:11 +0000

1. Beajolais Nouveau doesn’t last much beyond May of the following year. Toss that 10-year-old bottle.

2. BN with turkey is pretty good.

3. You paid $12 for a bottle of BN? Ahahahahaha.

By: peterb

peterb — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:41:24 +0000

Jferro always told me that the name for that was “Sauce Bearnaise Syndrome.”

Me, I’ve got that with “Munchos”, a form of potato non-chip.

By: pghgirlinexile

pghgirlinexile — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:03:51 +0000

I had a cousin (not the one I’d like to marry), who worked for a cookie company. Keebler, I think it was, back when they made those impossibly chewy cookies (Soft Batch?) that had a touch too much baking soda in them and enough MSG to make you eat the entire container of cookies in one sitting. Cousin worked on the packaging line. The company had a rule that all new employees could eat as many cookies as they wanted within their first week of employment. The natural end result was gorging and taste aversion, thus causing less theft on the line. (In theory, that is. I’m not sure it worked for them or if the story is true.)

The local Trader Joe’s here in Eugene, OR sells cases of Charles Shaw for 4.99. My fiance had a case waiting for me when I got here. Now, as we check out in the store, I try not to look at the wall of cases lining the front end of the store. Just one glance at that red and white label makes my esophagus burn.

By: erin k

erin k — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:08:40 +0000

So what happens to old Beaujolais Nouveau? Does it turn into regular (or possibly “vieux”) Beaujolais, or does it just get gross?

See, because someone brought me a bottle about 10 years ago that we didn’t use. Now I’ve moved it twice, unable to throw out an unopened bottle of wine. If I hear it’s crap, I might just pitch it.

Then again, if you want to be in on the experiment (since I have no designs on being any type of wine expert, even self-appointed), we could invite you over to try it….

By: peterb

peterb — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:12:29 +0000

See, I just knew there was something I liked about the way you think.

By: green LA girl

green LA girl — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:06:06 +0000

You know, if you drink the whole bottle in one sitting like I do, you’ll have just 1 hangover, not 2 –

By: Mom

Mom — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:53:10 +0000

Uh, oh….

We’d better scratch the Beaujolais Nouveau for Thanksgiving dinner and break out the bottle of Charles Shaw we’ve been saving for a really special occasion.

By: laura @ cucina testa rossa

laura @ cucina testa rossa — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:54:45 +0000

hi peter – i feel your pain. it’s kool-aid, i tell ya. but as a marketing person, i must tip my hat to the sheer marketing brilliance the French have shown here, something that is loathed in this neck of the woods and spoken about in hushed tones in the corners of dark smoky bars. it’s the great american way (that is so scorned, but secretly envied here). take nothing and make it something, then market the hell out of it and overcharge. starbucks – $4.50 for a CUP OF COFFEE?!?! but as you said, you “took it for the team”. consider it market research, R&D, and write it off on your taxes! maybe recoup a few of those 12 dollars

By: Frenzie

Frenzie — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:53:02 +0000

The Beaujolais Villages Primeur is priced around € 4 over here. Sad bastards. $ 12… I wouldn’t give it for it. Most definitely not.