Beaujolais Nouveau 2024 – beyond November

On 19 November 2021, I wrote that ‘we had, until 12 November 2021, exactly four Beaujolais Nouveau tasting notes’. I’m proud to announce that with this article, we’ve hit nearly 80 tasting notes. That’s a cool 1,900% increase in coverage. It represents three correlated facts: producers are changing; consumers are changing; wine writers are changing.

When Natasha Hughes MW, who is currently writing a book on Beaujolais, pinged me to say that she’d been sent a batch...