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2009 is a week old and by now your New Year’s hangover has worn off.  The Wine Witch’s bigger wish is that you got your hangover drinking something wonderful.  It is a new year and a new you and time to make your wine resolutions for 2009.  Here’s what the Wine Witch is going to do.

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Happy New Year, Everyone.  This is a continuation of the Champagne 101 post you can find in the archives.  Just a few extra fun and maybe even informative facts on sparkling wine as we approach Wednesday evening’s festivities.

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OK – the first thing that needs to be cleared up is the use of the word Champagne.  All Champagne is sparkling wine, but very little sparkling wine is Champagne.  You may recall from other posts that the French name their wines after where they are grown and not the grape in the bottle.  Champagne is a rather small wine region in France, and technically only wines that come from there have the right to be called Champagne.  Wine makers outside of France (especially the U.S. and Southern Hemishpere) hoping to cash in on Champagne’s mystic often call their sparkling wines Champagne.  They shouldn’t, but they do and the Wine Witch is not going to start swimming against the tide here.  If you see sparkling wines in this post or other reviews called Champagne when they are not, just relax and go with it.  We all know what we are talking about here.

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Today is the third Thursday in November and the Beaujolais Nouveau (BOE-zjoh-lay new-VOE) has arrived!!  So what you ask? Well, let the Wine Witch give you a little background here.

Beaujolais Nouveau (BN from now on to save my typing fingers) is made from the Gamay grape and comes from the Beaujolais region of France.  For the newer winos in the audience, the French name their wines from where they come from and not the grapes that go into them.  Nouveau is the French word for new, so what we have is new Gamay wine from the Beaujolais region of France.  How new?  This wine was grapes less than 4-6 weeks ago.

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Today is the third Thursday in November and the Beaujolais Nouveau (BOE-zjoh-lay new-VOE) has arrived!!  So what you ask? Well, let the Wine Witch give you a little background here.

Beaujolais Nouveau (BN from now on to save my typing fingers) is made from the Gamay grape and comes from the Beaujolais region of France.  For the newer winos in the audience, the French name their wines from where they come from and not the grapes that go into them.  Nouveau is the French word for new, so what we have is new Gamay wine from the Beaujolais region of France.  How new?  This wine was grapes less than 4-6 weeks ago.

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