Wine Parties at the weekend (1)

I joined 2 wine parties last weekend. Both were pretty nice. So I'll post they were like today and tomorrow.

- Friday, November 16 : Beaujolais Nouveau party in Ginza
As you might know, November 15 was the Beaujolais Nouveau release day this year. In Japan, a lot of enthusiastic parties are held at the release day every year because Japan might be the first country in the world to be able to drink Beaujolais Nouveau– I guess there was a big, weird party once, which was held at the international airport (or a hotel around there) and the participants started drinking at midnight.

Unlike such loud parties, our party was organized by the owner of a restaurant and we tried 4 kinds of Beaujolais Nouveau with our dinner. We normally buy Beaujolais around 1000 to 2000 JPY, but we had a little expensive one (between 3000 to 5000JPY) this time.

The wine list (in the order I drank them) was:
1. Domaine CHATELUS: Beaujolais Nouveau
2. Henri Fessey: Beaujolais Villages Nouveau TRADITION
3. Frederic Cossard: Beaujolais Villages Nouveau PRIMEUR Les Lapins
4. Leroy: Beaujolais Villages Nouveau PRIMEUR

They were very nice, but my favorite is Leroy. According to the Internet, Leroy is a famous wine "negociant" in France (“negociant” means shipper in English). Leroy’s wine is generally expensive but it is sells out pretty quickly. I think I know the reason too, the flavor is really like old wine even though it is NEW! So you can enjoy Leroy’s Beaujolais Nouveau around a year later as well as the release day.