Le Beaujolais Nouveau 1988

I love original vintage advertising posters and wine (particularly Riesling which - and I know this is naughty, I always drink with ice, unless we're in a restaurant and I'm pretending to be all flash and fancy)

Turns out good Riesling is cheaper than vintage posters. We've always got wine in the house, but until a recent find at a garage sale, no posters.

Today I picked this up from the picture framer.
(excuse the packaging, I'm keeping it safe and sound until Anth is home to hang it)

It cost eight dollars for the poster, and alot more than that to have it framed - I did try Ikea (I'm not a fan - it's bedlam here in Perth, I always feel like one of those lab rats stuck in a maze...) but alas, none of their frames were the right size.

So what do you think?

Do you like it?

(it was so hard to get a pic without my reflection in the glass)

The lady we bought it from has the most marvelous 60's home, in original nick, not ponced up, right on the banks of the Swan (River). She bought the poster herself while she was on holiday in France. Just the colours and the feel of the ink on paper were enough for me - it may be a spring chicken in the world of vintage posters, but I love it.

Here's a vintage poster currently for sale at Galerie Montmarte in Melbourne, designed to celebrate "the new wine" in 1993, just as our poster was, five years earlier.

Buvons Le Vin Nouveau. 1993. Artist, Raymond Savignac

(image and more info here)

It's very cute, isn't it, and you know I'm mad about yellow. I love the 'baby' Beaujolais in the pram, and the grapey 'do',

Beaujolais Nouveau is basically a young (very young - now you get the baby reference) red wine made from Gamay grapes grown in the Beaujolais region of France.

Every year on the third Thursday in November, just weeks after the grapes have been harvested, there is a race to deliver the first of the vintage. Posters like these are made to celebrate the arrival of the new Beaujolais.

but I think I like ours more...because it's just that, ours!

Now, to end

(and this couldn't be any less related to fine wines if I tried!)

Anth sent me this picture of one the salads on offer for dinner on the rig

it's called Pineapple Surprise!

Anth says: "apparently it is quite tasty, but I can't bring myself to try it..."

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Thanks, bon appetite and goodnight  x

p.s. I forgot to mention that Georges Duboeuf is the founder of Les Vins Georges Duboeuf, one of the largest and best known wine merchants in France.