Parisian brasserie celebrates 2024 Beaujolais Nouveau release

Описание: (21 Nov 2024)
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Paris, France - 21 November 2024
1. UPSOUND (French) Rodrigue Guillet, restaurant assistant manager, banging a pan to get the patrons’ attention:
“Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to celebrate the opening of Beaujolais nouveau 2024.”
2. Tilt of restaurant staff uncorking first bottles of 2024 Beaujolais-villages nouveau
3. Various of Restaurant staff serving free glasses of Beaujolais-villages nouveau
4. Pan of restaurant staff removing empty bottles
5. Pan of patrons cheering and drinking wine
6. SOUNDBITE  (English), Thoi Nguyen, Vietnamese tourist, 54:

“The taste? Hmm… I think it has some taste of flower and a little bit chilli. Yeah. It’s great!”
7. UPSOUND Rodrigue Guillet, drawing raffle UPSOUND (French) “The winner will have the number 123!”
8. Pan of Fanny Zanardo, winner of the raffle, waving hands and receiving a free bottle from Guillet
9. Pan of patrons applauding while a winner brings her bottle at the table
10. SOUNDBITE (French), Fanny Zanardo, French patron, 48:

“It's French gastronomy, French heritage. It's a source of pride. And it's a celebration too! So lots of symbols!”
11. Close up of a bottle being uncorked by restaurant staff
12. Various of patrons drinking wine
13. Wide of Gilles Gelin, the winemaker who produced the Beaujolais-villages nouveau bottles served that night, having diner at the restaurant
14. SOUNDBITE (French), Gilles Gelin, winemaker:

“It's quite a technical challenge, because making wine in a month and a half is very complicated. Making a great wine over two or three years of ageing isn't necessarily easy, but you've got the time to do it. Here, you have to be precise, rigorous, and the wine has to taste good on the big day.”
15. Various of 2024 Beaujolais-villages nouveau bottles
16. Close of a glass of wine
17. SOUNDBITE (French), Gilles Gelin, winemaker:

“We've been working with a complicated year so yes, we've had a lot of doubts. We were lucky to have a very nice month of August and a nice month of September, so we ended up with a best vintage  than we would have thought in July, that's for sure."
18. Close of a bottle of wine next to a pig statue in the restaurant
19.  Various of the restaurant exteriors
STORYLINE:
The new vintage of Beaujolais nouveau was uncorked in the middle of the night on Thursday in a Parisian restaurant, following an annual tradition.

Every third Thursday of November, parties are held across France to celebrate the comeback of this young and fruity wine made from the Gamay grape in the Lyon region.

Au Pied de Cochon - which means "At the Pig’s Foot" in English - is an open-all-night brasserie that opened in 1947.

At midnight (2300 GMT), Rodrigue Guillet, the restaurant assistant manager banged a pan announcing that it was "time to celebrate the opening of Beaujolais nouveau 2024”.

Patrons were then offered free glasses, and three bottles were raffled off.

“I think it has some taste of flower and a little bit chilli”, said Thoi Nguyen, a Vietnamese tourist having his first sip.

French Fanny Zanardo said: “It's French gastronomy, French heritage. It's a source of pride. And it's a celebration too! So lots of symbols!”

The bottles were supplied by winemaker Gilles Gelin, who says Beaujolais nouveau accounts for 25% of his production, and that this proportion continues to rise.

“It's quite a technical challenge, because making wine in a month and a half is very complicated”, he said. “You have to be precise, rigorous, and the wine has to taste good on the big day.”





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