a wine-growing region in E France, in Rhône department.
a dry, fruity red Burgundy wine from this region that does not age and usually must be drunk within a few months after it is made.
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Made from the Gamay grape in a sunny region south of Burgundy’s famed Côte d’Or, Beaujolais has all the characteristics of a first-rate Thanksgiving wine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Things came to a head on Beaujolais Day 2022 - a French event that toasts the wine harvest every November, that has become popular in Wales.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2024
They do not have the bandwidth to engage in theatrical ooh-ing and ah-ing at that Beaujolais you're raving about.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2023
If you’re looking for the literary scene in New York, you may want to drop in at Elaine’s, a shadowy but cheery East Side bar where authors meet for Beaujolais and bon mots.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2023
Mommy was a connoisseur of ministers; she knew them the way a French wine connoisseur knows Beaujolais red from Vouvray white.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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