Wine-lovers Celebrated New Beaujolais in Sofia

Society | December 6, 2003, Saturday // 00:00
Wine-lovers Celebrated New Beaujolais in Sofia Wine-lovers in Sofia had the chance for the very first time to taste the 2003 New Beaujolais harvest at the Tsentralni Hali shopping mall on Friday evening. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (novinite.com)

Wine-lovers in Sofia had the chance for the very first time to taste the 2003 New Beaujolais harvest at the Tsentralni Hali shopping mall on Friday evening.

Sofia public as well as many foreign ambassadors to Bulgaria enjoyed the official wine testing accompanied by French cheeses, local delicacies and French music. Many Bulgarian politicians were invited to the special ceremony organized by Club Affaires France Bulgaria.

The New Beaujolais 2003 harvest will enter the wine production history as unique with its unsurpassable quality, the so called "King of the Beaujolais", Georges Duboeuf, the largest wine producer in the Beaujolais region, said in November, adding that it may turn to be the greatest vintage of his career.

The New Beaujolais trademark was officially launched in 1951, when the Professional Union of Wine Producers in Beaujolais announced a separate date for its market introduction. The wine made its great dйbut in Paris in 1968 and after which conquer. In 1985 the exact date for the welcoming of the New Beaujolais was appointed-the third Thursday of November, when all wine producers and lovers officially declare "Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive'!" (The New Beaujolais came). That marks the beginning of the sales of the wine all over the world.

Some 90,000,000 bottles of wine are exported to a total of 140 countries all over the world, and now after The New Beaujolais arrived in Bulgaria the number of countries reached 141.

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