Santé!

For those of you who didn't know (and before last night, this list included me), Suntec is having a French Fair, just outside Carrefour—it's really not bad, wide selection of cheese, yogurts, olives, jams and the like, some of it Carrefour-branded, but others not. There is, too, of course, a rather wide selection of wines. I don't suppose they're to be expected to be excellent vintages, since it Carrefour we're talking about here, and don't expect to be recomended a nice bottle by any f the staff, since, well, it is Carefour we're talking about here. But well, I was in the mood for wine, and so, it seemed, after a quick phone call, was mother. So I went looking around for a bottle to buy, and this one caught my eye:

yes, i admit it, it was because of the packaging. But would't you be attracted to a wine packaged like this? I liked it because it wasn't pretending to be some classy fine wine with an 'antique' label that was printed to look like it had been sitting in some cellar despite being a 2005 vintage. So what was a 'Beaujolais'?
Luckily, the fair also had those 'How to Choose Wines' books, so i flipped through one, and found out that a Beaujolais was a light red, with berry/red-fruit tones, suited for young drinking. Which i felt suited my purposes rather well, not a serious-drinker, "nice legs", "draws well", "good colour" and all that etc that i know squat about. This is not the wine i was craving, in case you were wondering, that deep, dark, rich wine that remains elusive. But i wasn't looking for that in any case; i know that i know nothing about choosing wines. basically, i just felt like drinking wine, just for fun. So i bought the Beaujolais.

After a quick sit in the freezer—my mother said an ice-bucket was too leche, we opened it. Obviously, I can't show you pictures with a corkscrew and someone pulling it out, but this should suffice. heh.


So the wine itself? Pretty much as advertised, light and young, a bit too young for my liking, needed a bit of swirling about to make it nicer. Which, incidentally, happened when i was trying to take a nice shot. But yeah, it's just one of those random things i do when i'm in the random mood—buy a random bottle of wine and drink it, and it turned out pretty okay. So yeah, pretty happy with the whole thing.