For those who want to know more about French wine, here are a few pros to check out on Instagram and Substack. Some of these folks speak in French, and only certain have English subtitles, but if you’re a French language learner, you might like to check them out anyway for practice at listening to the rhythm and cadence of spoken French wine vocabulary. Allez, on trinque ? (Shall we have a toast?)
This is not an article about Beaujolais Nouveau, the marketing phenom that took the world by purple storm several decades ago, when c’était la fête (it was party time) in restos and bars celebrating the “new wine” from one of France’s lesser-known regions that really needed a publicity boost. Its about the “Real Beaujolais” — wines of character and charm, beloved by other vignerons (winemakers) and wine insiders.
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