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Squire Frederick, Annapolis Town Crier, proclaims the arrival of the first case of Beaujolais Nouveau 2011 to the City of Anne on Thursday, November 17th — “Beaujolais Nouveau Day”! Mayor Josh Cohen met the boat carrying the “first case” at Ego Alley, and escorted the case to the Red Red Wine Bar for the first tasting.
Historically, “at one past midnight on the third Thursday of each November…over a million cases of Beaujolais Nouveau travel through France to Paris for shipment to all parts of the world”. It has thus “become a worldwide race to be the first to serve this new wine of the harvest”, and “in doing so, it has been carried by motorcycle, balloon, truck, helicopter, Concorde jet, elephant, runners and rickshaws to get to its final destination”. This year, in Annapolis it was carried by boat, on foot, and by eCruiser to it’s ultimate destination, The Red Red Wine Bar on Main St. According to French law of 1985 importers of Beaujolais Nouveau had to agree not to sell it before midnight on the third Thursday of November.
Oyez Oyez Oyez
“Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive!”
(“The New Beaujolais has arrived!”)
