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| Beaujolais Nouveau launches extraordinary 2011 Posted: 17 Nov 2011 05:43 AM PST  Beaujolais Nouveau 2011 has arrived. ― Reuters pic Proud of a 60-year tradition that has been propelled to global renown by a sleek retailing campaign, Beaujolais seeks to burnish its image as a wine to celebrate the new vintage and dampen criticism that its popularity lies more in the marketing than in the quality of the wine. "At the start of my career, the arrival of the new Beaujolais was a pretext to share and have friendly parties," said Emmanuel Delmas, a consultant-sommelier wine-expert. "Today, the event is out of fashion. Consumers no longer accept bad wine and are looking for drinking pleasure, even if this means paying a bit more," he added. At an average €4 (RM17) a bottle for a wine made in less than 10 weeks, Beaujolais Nouveau remains a profitable operation for many producers. Beaujolais Nouveau is made from the Gamay grape. The 2011 vintage, a year characterised by unusual weather leading to relatively early harvests, appears to have provided higher quality wine from fewer grapes. The 2011 Beaujolais Nouveau was harvested early and could mature a bit longer until the traditional third Thursday of November. Christophe Pacalet is based in Ville-Morgon, part of the Beaujolais area, and produces several kinds of wine as well as some Beaujolais Nouveau. He is respectful of nature on the vineyards he acquired in 1999 with his uncle. At a tasting today the wine had the typical Gamay smell with a whiff of banana. The first impression was of red fruit that lingers in the mouth turning towards a riper dark fruit with a hint of liquorice. A balanced wine with no acidity. Pacalet's wine sells for eight euros a bottle. Lyon party A decree in 1951 allowed the sale of wines from the same year. At first the starting date was in December and Beaujolais growers managed to get that pushed back to mid-November. In the beginning, the new Beaujolais was mainly a festive event in the wine bars of the city of Lyon, just 30km south of the growing area and still the epicentre of the increasingly global Beaujolais bash with a midnight party that sees 400 litres of the wine being served in just half an hour. In 1966, the 250 stores of the wine retail chain Nicolas in Paris started a special Beaujolais Nouveau operation and later firms such as Georges Duboeuf took the wine to export markets. Duboeuf, born in 1933, earned the monickers "King of Beaujolais" and "Pope of Beaujolais" for his efforts in promoting the wine that makes up one third of the production of the Beaujolais area ― the rest is sold at a more mature age. Duboeuf still runs the firm with his son Franck and will be present at a Beaujolais party in the United States, a key market. In 2010, 35 million bottles of the wine were put on the market. Some 7.5 million were sold in French supermarkets and 15.5 million were exported, the rest went to bars, off-licence stores and restaurants. The biggest consuming region in France is Paris with 1.3 million bottles. Japan was the biggest export market with seven million, followed by the United States with 2.4 million and Germany with 1.2 million. There are many other "new" wines in France or Italy, but the phrase 'Le Beaujolais Nouveau est Arrivé" remains the clarion call in France for the first taste of the vintage year. ― Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Samsung to release modified tablet in Germany Posted: 17 Nov 2011 04:48 AM PST  This handout picture released on November 17, 2011 by Samsung Electronics in Seoul shows the Galaxy Tab 10.1N. Samsung Electronics said it has modified the design of its newest tablet PC to bypass a sales ban in Germany, and would start selling it there as early as this week. ― AFP-pic The Galaxy Tab 10.1N, based on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, has a different metal frame and the location of the speakers has been changed, a spokesman for the South Korean company told AFP. Samsung was dealt a blow in September when a German court ruled that it infringed upon Apple's design patents for its iPad. The court banned sales and marketing for the Galaxy Tab 10.1. In a spate of lawsuits, Samsung and Apple accuse each other of copying designs or technology for their smartphones and tablet computers. Apart from Germany, they have also launched patent claims against each another in the United States, Japan, South Korea and Australia. Apple last month won a victory against Samsung in Australia, when a judge upheld a temporary injunction blocking the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Later in October Samsung announced it was trying to block the sale of Apple's newest product, the iPhone 4S, in Japan and Australia. The decision to release a modified Galaxy reflects Samsung's eagerness to begin selling its tablet in Germany before the year-end shopping season. But Apple's response to the new version would be crucial, said HI Investment and Securities analyst Song Myung-Sup. It was not yet possible to say whether the modified tablet "will be free of any legal disputes with Apple", Song said. Samsung Electronics's Galaxy Tab 10.1N ― AFP-Relaxnews Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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