Pierre-Marie Chermette’s juicily delicious 2023 Beaujolais Les Griottes has just arrived, and not a moment too soon. We noticed an unusual-looking shipment bound for Paris when we passed by Pierre-Marie’s Saint-Verand cellar during our visit last year. To our surprise, the Chermette family has been bottling a 5-litre bag of Beaujolais Les Griottes for several years. We were duty-bound to ask for a parcel. Pierre-Marie was initially quizzical about our request until we explained that Australia has a long and illustrious history with wine-in-a-box. We also learned that the word goon does, shockingly, not exist in the French dictionary! Although the 2022 vintage had sold out, our enthusiasm impressed Pierre-Marie enough to reserve us an allocation of the 2023. As you can see in the image, we had some fun tasting the new release; delicious young Beaujolais can do that to you. The Chermette’s are delighted with the quality of all their 2023 wines. This year’s Les Griottes combines lovely, sweet fruit and gluggable texture with an invigorating freshness that keeps you coming back to the tap (or bottle). Alongside the new Les Griottes (available in all formats), we have a new shipment of Chermette’s impressive Crémant de Bourgogne. It’s one of the best-value sparklers we ship, so if you don’t know this wine, do yourself a favour. French sparkling this good, at this price, does not grow on trees.