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Kathy Hoffman and Don Nordin browse the aisles at Sundance Wine Cellars, one of several
locations celebrating this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau harvest. Ambrosia Restaurant
and Bar and Cornucopia Bottle Market will hold tastings as well.
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But for those who cannot make
the trek to France this year, some
restaurants, wineries and wine bars
in Eugene will offer their own trib
utes to this French custom with
wine tastings of a few of the Beau
jolais Nouveau wines.
Like Santa Claus on Christmas
Eve, Air France will deliver cases
of the Beaujolais Nouveau on
Thursday to locations around the
world, according to Armen
Kevrekian, organizer of the year
ly tasting at Ambrosia Restaurant
and Bar.
Ambrosia has been holding
Beaujolais Nouveau tastings for
more than 10 years, he said.
On Thursday, wine lovers will
descend into Ambrosia's wine tast
ing room, reminiscent of a French
“cave” with brick-lined walls, for
an invitation-only wine tasting of
the new vintage.
“It celebrates the end of the har
vest,” Kevrekian said.
Kevrekian said he knows first
hand what it means to brave harsh
weather for a bottle of wine. He
said he began holding Beaujolais
Nouveau tastings in 1978 at his
restaurant in Anchorage, Alaska,
and when the cases of Georges
Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau were
flown in, he would travel by dog
sled to retrieve them.
Along with the Beaujolais Nou
veau, Kevrekian said Ambrosia
will also offer tastings of three to
four Oregon Pinot Noirs.
Last year's Beaujolais Nouveau
earned high praise from both wine
makers and wine lovers. The har
vesting conditions were some of
the best since 1976, according to
French winemaker Georges
Duboeuf on www.intowine.com.
He said the combination of chilly
mornings and hot afternoons creat
ed a “phenomenon of concentra
tion” in the juices of the grapes.
“(Beaujolais Nouveau wine) is
very light and fruity with a little
bit of sweetness,” Simonton said.
He also said Beaujolais Nouveau
gives a true indication of the quali
ty of the harvest.
During the 2000 Beaujolais Nou
veau festival in France, hundreds of
people flooded the streets of Ville
franche-sur-Saone, a small town at
the heart of Beaujolais country, to
taste the first Beaujolais Nouveau of
this century. Winemakers set up ta
bles along the cobblestone road that
runs through the center of town and
invited passersby to critique their
vineyards’ wines. The air was crisp
and cold, and combined with the
wine, it turned many cheeks and
noses rosy.
As the sun set on the third day
of the festival, the celebration had
not lost any momentum. Several
festival-goers disguised in elabo
rate costumes wove through the
crowd in small parades. An or
chestra began to play a lively tune
and led the crowd toward the Ho
tel de Ville (French for city hall)
where more costumed people per
formed acrobatic feats from the
windows of the building and the
street lamps below.
Beaujolais Nouveau is not a
wine to store in a cellar for years or
decades at a time. It is a young
wine made almost exclusively
from gamay grapes and is meant to
be drunk only a few weeks after
the harvest of the grapes.
“There is nothing sophisticated
or in-depth about (the wine),” said
Alison Albrecht, organizer of the
Beaujolais Nouveau tasting at Cor
nucopia Bottle Market. “Anyone
can like it.”
Cornucopia will host a Beaujo
lais Nouveau wine tasting on Fri
day along with a hot, spiced Ger
man wine called Gluwein. The
tastings are open to anyone and
will be held at both its Monroe
Street and 17th Avenue locations.
“It’s a great big party that comes
from France,” Albrecht said. “It’s a
taste of the new harvest, and you
have to drink it all by the New
Year.”
Jen West is a Pulse reporter for the
Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be reached
at jenwest@dailyemerald.com.
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the ruling by Ashcroft tramples the
rights of Oregonians.
“The Bush administration is on the
right wing, and we have known all
along that they’d try to neutralize the
Oregon law,” he said.
Gayle Atteberry, executive director
of Oregon Right to Life and a Eugene
resident, says that Ashcroft’s ruling
has nothing to do with state’s rights
because the federal law that controls
substances in the U.S. has been in ef
fect for more than 30 years.
“It was state’s rights that got in the
way of a federal rule,” she said. Atte
berry also said that Ashcroft’s memo
won’t affect doctors’ ability to help
terminally ill patients manage their
pain.
“Ashcroft went out of his way to
assure doctors that the ruling will not
affect aggressive pain treatment, even
if it accidentally hastens a patient’s
death,” Atteberry said.
Her view was disputed by
Humphry.
“Even if their intention is known
to be good, doctors are bound to be
more nervous,” he said.
Brian Terrett, spokesman for
PeaceHealth Medical Group, says
that physicians with the group
haven’t indicated any difficulty pre
scribing federally controlled pain
medication in non-lethal doses as a
result of Ashcroft’s ruling.
“If we were seeing that as a prob
lem,” Terrett said, “we’d take what
ever steps were necessary. ”
Oregon Right to Life believes that
the courts will eventually overturn
Oregon’s law.
“We will prevail in the long term,”
Atteberry said.
Humphry disagreed.
“If we are a free country, if we are a
free people,” he said, “we should
have the right to choose how we die. ”
Brook Reinhard is a community reporterforthe
Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached at
brookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.
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the Northern Alliance is desperate
for the air coverage that makes their
job viable. So, when everybody has
a vested political interest in how
things are going, you can expect
these people will tell us how its go
ing when it is most appropriate for
their needs. I can’t imagine North
ern Alliance leadership reporting
they had a bad day. All of those re
ports have been positive, and they
have all been implying that as soon as
those American pilots get off the USS
Kitty Hawk and drop some bombs,
we will be there mopping up.
Is this coverage helpful or harmful?
I don’t consider that there is any
coverage. I see it as a zero. What the
reporters are doing is very creative
— they are pretending they are get
ting coverage. They are doing the
best you can ever imagine, given
the conditions they are working
with. But, I think they are doing a
disservice to everyone involved be
cause they don’t have any informa
tion. The news providers are put
ting these ersatz stories together to
make it look like there are reporters
on the ground. You have to read
very closely and suspiciously to
even figure out there is nobody
there.
John Liebhardt is the higher education editor
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be
reached at johnliebhardt@dailyemerald.com.
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