INTERVIEW – Beaujolais nouveau: “2024 is a Millésime de ‘l’ancien temps’”

The new Beaujolais has arrived with us.

A Millésime 2024 Marqué from the Aléas du Climat.

As wine and the Vigne became more and more affected by climate change, TF1info got to the point with Bertrand Châtelet, director of the French Institute of Wine and Wine in the Bourgogne-Beaujolais-Savoie-Jura region.

A Beaujolais nouveau de “l’ancien temps”. This is also Bertrand Châtelet, director of the French Institute of Wine and Wine in the Bourgogne-Beaujolais-Savoie-Jura region, qualified for this wine for the 2024 vintage, arriving on November 21st in the whole month. A wine that looked like the ensemble of French wines had little impact on the climate as winemakers had to adapt to these changes to maintain this tradition. For TF1info, Bertrand Châtelet has reached the point on the project that tours the new Beaujolais.

Because the vineyards and the wine are affected by climate change. What are the consequences for the New Beaujolais?

Bertrand Chatelet: Le Beaujolais is a wine that lies alongside others, the effects of climate change. About the differences in relation to other vignobles. Air conditioning touches the entire vegetative cycle with all the things that could last all year round. From today’s perspective, there is a risk that there are potential dangers in printing and that violent phenomena have been occurring for a long time (new window)the vents that may throw up the rameaux or add the oranges of the grêle that may cancel the review and then finish the reduction.

Once you have checked the device in balance with the raisins, you need to warm it up at elevated temperature. 2024 is a counterexample, more than two years later, with high temperatures (new window) Anyone who accelerates the wine cycle and uses a maturation and ripening time for the raisins will lose money again. Ultimately, the operations were successful with a daily schedule (new window) relative to the last month 30 years ago, with a sale in August. This has an impact on the wine, increasing the success and improving the acidity of the raisin.

When reaching the limit of adaptation to climatic changes

Bertrand Chatelet

Since I have the habit of increasing the temperature and improving the quality of the wine, is this the case?

Right now, it could be that the climatic development is favorable from a wine quality point of view. However, we only get so far in this system. Puisqu’on sait que le change et le réchauffement (new window) I will not wait in the next few years 2020, but will continue and intensify. I don’t think I’m about to sell more than I reach the limit of this adjustment and find other solutions to extend the cycle of the wines and preserve the balances of the raisins, or to correct these balances Plus de sucre et moins d’acidité par des Adapted winemaking itineraries.

If you grow wines in Beaujolais every day and grow new wines in Beaujolais every day – and are under a controlled appellation – you will actually look for adaptation solutions for the terroirs of Beaujolais. Looking for solutions, notamment la migration des specèces: On the work of Gamay, this is the Cépage du Beaujolais. And this is a cépage that cannot be captivated. When working you have to choose the gamays plus spaetzle or they get an advantage over the acid. I also work with other plants that I need to assemble with the Gamay and you can see if you have a specific balance or need several varieties plus delay. But this is all in the long term, until 2030, 2040, 2050.

To begin with, while working on the adjustments of your house, you will need to use a pipe of your house to keep the water on the feet and limit photosynthesis. On the other hand, there are more feuilles in the vineyards or a little more skin. It is possible to collect all these taxes to compensate for the impact of the recharging.

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What’s worse about letting the wine evolve? What does it mean that you have left Millésime 2024?

The wine always tasted good in the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Even more so when I was with a cépage and an association of terroirs, there was no certainty about continuity. Climatic evolution allowed a small house to have the highest quantity of quality wine relative to what it could achieve a few decades ago, aged 80 years or more. Aujourd’hui, about the wines that don’t exist and that require a few more things. My view is that I guard a communal and acceptable pedestal. All adjustment techniques serve to maintain this continuity.

In 2024, the production volume will be severely affected due to air conditioning in the individual zones. Recently, the year 2024 was a millennium “old time” in relation to climatic developments. In 2024, the retrospective was continually updated over the past few years, meaning this style was no longer sufficient.