Beaujolais Nouveau
The history of Beaujolais Nouveau begins on March 11, 1951, with the evolution of the regulations on the sale of wine that year. In fact, the decree published in the official journal that day specifies that “producers were only authorized to release from their cellars wines from the 1951 harvest benefiting from the controlled designation of origin from December 15 1951″. But the Beaujolais winegrowers are rebelling against this publication, they want to sell their production sooner. Thus in 1951, the Union viticole du Beaujolais requested the possibility of selling its wines “en primeur” before December 15. Request accepted on November 13, 1951, with the publication of an administrative note specifying the conditions “under which certain wines with controlled designation can be marketed immediately without waiting for the general release on December 15”. Well done Beaujolais, “Beaujolais Nouveau” was born. It has been since 1985 that the vintage has arrived every third Thursday of the month of November, at 12:00 a.m., the Beaujolais Nouveau festival has grown in size each year since this date.
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