# Should I pick up more Beaujolais Villages 2009? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851 "2012-04-15T15:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851/1 "2012-04-15T15:49:36Z")
I recently picked up my first specific vintage year-producer combo ever. I remember drinking a really good bottle of Louis Jadot Beaujolais Villages 2009 at Capital Grille a couple months ago, and found it in stores again this week and picked up a bottle. However, Wiki says that Beaujolais Villages is meant to be drunk even sooner than most average wine, within a couple years. So should I stock up on this or will it go much worse in a year or so? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851/2 "2012-04-15T16:12:19Z")
Just have a lot of picnics this Spring. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851/3 "2012-04-15T17:31:22Z")
Beaujolais IS meant to be drunk while young. But 2009 is still young. You can go back as much as 10 years and still have good Beaujolais. Check out [this vintage chart](http://www.erobertparker.com/info/vintagechart.pdf). ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851/4 "2012-04-15T20:18:38Z")
Ooh I love Louis Jadot Beaujolais Villages. I did not know that it was supposed to be drunk young. I just thought that was what the store had. But you are also talking to a person that originally bought it because I thought the label was pretty. In fact, that’s how I pick most wines. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851/5 "2012-04-15T20:25:40Z")
I have to confess that I too might have a different opinion of it if it had had an Australian-style labeling which is just gaudy and Targetesque. Thanks for the link Athena. I might pick up some more 2009 and Snarky, I definitely plan on taking it to parties in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851/6 "2012-04-15T23:12:10Z")
Wiki says ‘within two years of their harvest’. So I reckon if you were going to buy some, only buy what you can drink this summer. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851/7 "2012-04-16T17:58:34Z")
I couldn’t help myself and opened the bottle tonight. Now I sort of wish I hadn’t because it is the most amazing wine – possibly the best alcoholic beverage this side of butterscotch schnapps – I’ve ever had – for the first 1/4 glass. The smell is just divine. But it loses its flavor pretty quickly in the glass. I’m going to be drinking lots of 1/4 glasses over the next week. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851/8 "2012-04-16T18:07:10Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I couldn’t help myself and opened the bottle tonight. Now I sort of wish I hadn’t because it is the most amazing wine – possibly the best alcoholic beverage this side of butterscotch schnapps – I’ve ever had – for the first 1/4 glass. The smell is just divine. But it loses its flavor pretty quickly in the glass. > > I’m going to be drinking lots of 1/4 glasses over the next week. The next week? Ouch. Hard to keep reds good for that long once they’re opened. I go a few days at most, if I keep them in the fridge. After that, almost all of them start going downhill. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851/9 "2012-04-16T18:49:28Z")
Remember MOST ALL wine is meant to be consumed young, generally within a couple years of vintage. Also, there’s more than one “style” of Beaujolais. Beaujolais Nouveau is _absolutely_ meant to be drunk within a couple _months_ of bottling. Vintage and vineyard specific Beaujolais can and will acquire pleasant secondary characteristics with some bottle aging, but as a general rule of thumb, the Gamay grape that is used to make Beaujolais wine produces a very light-bodied, low tannin wine that doesn’t suit it well for long-term aging. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-pick-up-more-beaujolais-villages-2009/618851/10 "2012-04-16T19:00:29Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Remember MOST ALL wine is meant to be consumed young, generally within a couple years of vintage. My B-I-L is a winemaker and he says there’s three types of wine: [ol] [li]The best, only 2-4% of all wine produced, which should be aged for several years before drinking[/li][li]The majority, 80% of all wine produced, which is made to be drunk as soon as you bring it home from the shop[/li][li]The plonk, meant to be opened on the way home from the shop.[/li][/ol]