Thursday November 16th from 6pm - Beaujolais Nouveau day + De Ranke Hop Harvest 2023 beer launch
This year we have two different Beaujolais releases for you, both from the same natural wine producer Séléne. We will be serving each wine by the glass. Bottles will also be available to take-away and order online.
+ Hop Harvest 2023 farmhouse beer from De Ranke will be pouring on draught
If that’s not enough of a reason to get excited, all advanced table bookings will be receive a complimentary cheese plate!
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If you haven’t heard of Beaujolais Nouveau day we’ll quickly summarise.
- The 3rd Thursday in November is now cemented in history as the day that new Beaujolais wine is released into the wild.
- The red wine (Gamay grapes) is very young, only six to eight weeks old, and is meant to be drunk fresh (generally within 6 months).
- It owes it’s easy drinkability to a winemaking process called carbonic maceration, also known as whole-berry fermentation. This technique preserves the fresh, fruity quality of the grapes without extracting bitter tannins from the grape skins
- You can go back centuries to find examples of Nouveau Beaujolais being enjoyed, but it was back in the 1970’s that the race to get the wine into towns and cities really took off as an event, and quickly became a nationwide festival in France that has now spread out across the world.
This year we have two different releases for you, both from the same natural wine producer Séléne. Bottles will also be available to take-away and order online.
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But that’s not all, as an added bonus, De Ranke, the legendary Belgian farmhouse brewery are also releasing their fresh hop farmhouse beer, Hop Harvest 2023, on the 16th and we will be pouring this fresh on draught.
De Ranke, have brewed an annual wet hop (aka fresh hop) beer every year since 2009. Wet Hop beers are brewed using hops collected from the vine and used straight away, without any additional processing such as drying out.