Le foire aux vins Lidl. The Wine Fair at Lidl

Il fallait approvisionner un peu.

We had to supply a bit.

Beaujolais Nouveau et des cèpes

As each and every year, the last 5 years, we buy a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau in november and this year is no exception.
The bottle above is ours but we were invited to eat a 'raclette' at my parents-in-law and there we drank two variants of Beaujolais, each one with their own characteristics.

The mushrooms above - called cèpes in French - were found by my father-in-law when he, together with some friends, went for a 'mushroom-picking-day'. They are big as you can see!
Last year a couple of them weighed 1,3 kg each!
Altogether my father-in-law picked around 30 kg and the whole group of maybe ten persons, around 300 kg!

Bon appétit!

Château Fourcas Dupré 1999

This evening we went back to the French wines, drinking a Château Fourcas Dupré 1999 (Listrac-Médoc, Cuvée Réservée).

The etiquette is the same as above but not the year.
A very good wine anyhow!

California Ruby Cabernet 2009

It's almost regarded as blasphemy to drink other but French wines in France but tonight we did.
It was my mother-in-law who, among other wines, bought a bottle of California Ruby Cabernet 2009.
It was a somewhat sweet-tasting wine but quite good.

In Sweden, French wines are only the fifth most imported wines after South African, Australian, Californian and other wine-cultivating countries.
During the 1970's and 80's French wines were the most imported ones though.

(Photo California Ruby Cabernet copied from: http://www.athenshash.com/Images/Wines/Baywood_Ruby-Cabernet_Red_Cheap.jpg)

Beaujolais Nouveau bien sûr

Svenska:

Självfallet blev det ett inköp av en flaska Beaujolais Nouveau även i år. Det har ju tack vare Aurore blivit en tradition, dock endast de senaste tre åren skall sägas. En ung tradition.

'Beaujolais Villages Nouveau' 2007. Vi ansåg båda att årets vin var bättre än förra årets nyskörd.

English:

Of course we bought a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau this year too. It has thanks to Aurore become a tradition, though only for the last three years. A young tradition.

'Beaujolais Villages Nouveau' 2007. We both regarded this years wine being better than last years vintage.

(Photo Beaujoulais Nouveau taken from: http://www.ywc.co.jp/)