Beaujolais Nouveau

[EcclesCake]

A local pub if offering a full English breakfast with a bottle of BN on Thursday.

Do any of you race out to buy a bottle, or have you in the past?

[boxtops]

No

[friedgreentomato]

When I was training the hotel I was attached to did the drive down to collect the wine and served it up with a special meal. Tbh it was yuck

[ubasses]

Going back 30 odd years we used to rush out from the office to the local wine bar lunchtime. Don't know why cos it was never that wonderful, just a tradition for 2 or 3 years.

[DTCwordfan]

Definitely no. How to sell 20 mln litres of crap, young wine, cheap.....geat marketing by the French though.

[wardlaw]

No. Very overrated IMO. Much better to buy Italian for red.

[EcclesCake]

Many a moon ago it was a little needed excuse to go to the pub, 1 year in 6 it was just about OK to drink rather than cleaning the loo with.

This is the first for year that I've spotted an event based around the arrival of BN. If I wasn't working I'd go along for the social aspects of a breakfast with friends, the wine being an incidental amusement factor.

No doubt when I meet them on Friday they will be willingly wanting to share their bottles of BN with me ;-)

[owdhamer]

Have in the past ,drunk as a fiddler's bitch one year.

[FredPuli43]

A colleague used to enter the race, organised,I think, by a national paper. He won the motorbike section one year, on an old BMW flat twin, but the resulting product wasn't up to much. It varied a good deal from year to year and producer to producer; some years it was passable, suitably chilled; but in general the whole thing seemed an overblown publicity stunt. Restaurants local to me in London used to play along with this and advertise its arrival, but I haven't seen that in over 20 years.

[EcclesCake]

What a wonderful turn of phrase Owdhammer, I'll have to store that one for use at a later date!

[mccfluff]

my dad used to, i don't think he does now. i haven't drunk it in years

[owdhamer]

We had 2 bottles in the pub , and brought one home, looked like a buckled wheel walking home eccles.

[NoMercy]

It's bloody rubbish!

[Wharton]

As to it's quality, I think the 'Nouveau' gives the game away.

[EcclesCake]

Generally the case, but let's face it NoM, how many wines could stand up to a fried breakfast!

Without wanting to sound like Desktop, I'm pretty fed up tonight and the thought of fast forwarding to Thursday for a fry up and a bottle of crap wine would be preferable to where I am at the moment :-(

[boxtops]

LOL at the analogy, eccles, but sorry to hear you are in the dumps tonight.

[EcclesCake]

Thanks Boxtops, I don't often have bad day; but today is one of them.

Hopefully tomorrow will bring good news to brighten my mood......until then I will continue supping good wine! :-)