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Georges Duboeuf, 'The Pope of Beaujolais' dies at the age of 86. He singlehandedly elevated a wine-producing region into a gold mine by celebrating Beaujolais Nouveau, a young wine drunk each year soon after harvest. His winery, run by his son Franck since 2018, produces 30 million bottles of the light wine a year.
Called an ordinary wine, it was made extraordinary each year by the celebration of each year's new vintage. Light and inexpensive, we drank Beaujolai at will in the 1980s.
Most interesting is that his family has been in the winemaking business for four centuries. That's a lot of wine. RIP Georges!
