One great wine to serve with the dinner is currently being produced in a region of France where vintners and negotiants are busy getting their product to the marketplace. The Beaujolais Nouveau ...

One final (but important) point of difference is the culture around wine. “Beaujolais is much less pretentious than other French wine regions. It’s very sociable and welcoming,” Lapalus told me.

The latest batch of the popular French red wine Beaujolais Nouveau is hitting store shelves in Japan, but it may leave wine connoisseurs with sticker shock. This year’s version became available ...