NOn Thursday last week, the French fulfilled a tradition that means a lot to them: the launch, always on the 3rd Thursday of November, of Beaujolais Nouveau, the wine from this year’s harvest, the red that is meant to be drunk young, preferably until the spring of 2026. As tradition dictates, from now until the end of the year, many millions of bottles will ‘fly’, present in everything bistro. This wine model once had some followers here, who launched, for example, Dão Novo, but the trend didn’t catch on. I think it was a shame, because it was an excellent companion for chestnuts, the emblematic product of this time. Beaujolais — made with the Gamay grape variety — is always a reason to celebrate, even with a huge “internal contradiction”: it is to be consumed in winter but with a summer profile, light in color, light in concentration and body, very aromatic as a result of the oenological technique used, it is the true gluglu wine. While in other times the most traditional oenophiles understood that Beaujolais was not a serious thing to worry about, now that the fashion needle has changed, this type of wine is completely incheering up those who think that now everything has to have little color, little alcohol and minimal structure. Trendy things!