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Thu 19 Nov 2026 · 00:01 Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé

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The youngest wine in the world. For one night only.

Picked in September, in the bottle by October, drunk the moment it's legal. At one minute past midnight on the third Thursday of November the first wine of the harvest lands in London. We're sitting down to dinner first, then counting the last minute down together with a glass in hand.

Pre-order the Nouveau · £16 Book the Nouveau dinner

600 bottles · 80 seats across two sittings · 250 bundles

Top Cuvée at midnight on Beaujolais Nouveau night
Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé · Gamay, cold, in big glasses · 00:01, Thursday 19 November · Wine for everyone · Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé · Gamay, cold, in big glasses · 00:01, Thursday 19 November · Wine for everyone ·

The explainer

So what is Beaujolais Nouveau?

A whole wine region racing to get its harvest into a glass before winter. Zero cellaring, zero ceremony, one date in the diary. Here's the entire thing in four bits.

One grape

Gamay, from the granite hills north of Lyon. Light, red-fruited, built for drinking rather than waiting.

Six weeks flat

Harvest to bottle in about six weeks. Whole bunches, carbonic ferment, no oak, no filtering, no faff.

One date, worldwide

Nobody may sell a drop before 00:01 on the third Thursday of November. Same minute in Lyon, London and Tokyo.

Serve it cold

Fridge cold, big glasses, something roasted on the table. Nobody has ever improved this wine by discussing it.

Our bottle

Top Cuvée Nouveau 2026

Top Cuvée Nouveau 2026 bottle

We've been going back to the same growers in Beaujolais for years, so this year we asked for our own cuvée: old-vine Gamay, hand-picked, carbonic, nothing added and nothing taken out. It was in a tank in Villié-Morgon in September and it will be in your fridge in November.

Crunchy red fruit Banana bread Very cold Gone by Friday
£16
Per bottle
600
Bottles made
12%
Alcohol
19·11
Lands / ships

Pick your format

Single bottle
£16

One bottle, 75cl. Enough for two people and a roast chicken.

6-pack case
Price TBC

Six bottles, better per-bottle price, free London delivery.

The Nouveau bundle
Price TBC

One bottle, a tote, and the limited-edition insulated wine caddy. Only 250 made, then it's gone for a year.

Pre-order now

Pre-orders ship or are ready to collect from 19 November. Free London delivery over £60.

The dinner · Top Cuvée, Highbury

Wednesday night. Thursday wine.

Sit down, eat a set menu built for Gamay, drink bottomless Nouveau, then count the last minute down at the table. Two sittings, 80 seats in total. Kitchen opens at 18:00 and the last table goes down at 22:00, so the late sitting eats its way to midnight.

18:00

Kitchen opens · first sitting

40 seats, set menu, bottomless Nouveau from the moment you sit down. Nothing has legally arrived yet, which is entirely the point.

22:00

Last table · second sitting

The other 40 seats, same menu, and a two-hour run at the countdown. Book this one if you want to be at the table at midnight.

23:59

The countdown

Sixty seconds on the big screen. Everyone shouting. Corkscrews out.

00:01

Arrivé

First bottle opened, first glass free for everyone in the room. The youngest wine in the world, eight minutes old.

02:00

Coffee, cheese, last glass

Tables stay put, plates come away, and you leave with a bottle for Thursday. Which is going to be difficult, and that's fine.

Book the Nouveau dinner

Set menu and bottomless Nouveau included. Price confirmed shortly, join the list below to get first booking.

The dining room at midnight, glasses up

Where to find it

Pouring across London

Our Nouveau lands in these rooms on the 19th. Some open at midnight, some the morning after. Check with them, then go.

Map of London stockists pouring Top Cuvée Nouveau
Top Cuvée
Highbury · N5
Nouveau dinner, two sittings, then bottles
Shop Cuvée
Stoke Newington · N16
Bottles from 8am Thursday
Venue name
Hackney · E8
By the glass all weekend
Venue name
Peckham · SE15
Nouveau and roast chicken
Venue name
Soho · W1
Launch pour, Thursday 6pm
Venue name
Hammersmith · W6
Bottles to take away

More being confirmed weekly. Want your bar on this list? Trade orders here →

For trade

Pouring it? Let's make this quick.

You've got ten tabs open and a delivery window on the 18th. Allocation is by the case, London delivery is on us, and every account gets the point-of-sale kit so your floor team can sell it in one sentence.

6 × 75cl
Case format. Two-case minimum.
£66 / case
Ex-VAT. Sensible GP at £9 a glass.
By 18 Nov
Free London delivery, chilled, in time.
POS kit
Bottle talkers, countdown poster, tasting note.
Reserve your allocation Talk to a human

30-day terms for existing accounts. New accounts, first order pro-forma.

Said about us

Booked the late sitting on a whim and ended up cheering at a wine that was eight minutes old. Best Wednesday of the year.

Dinner guest, second sitting

Ordered a case for a Thursday night in and drank it cold out of tumblers. Nobody asked what region it was from.

Online order, London N4

Two cases gone in a night and guests still asking for it in December. Easiest list addition of the year.

Stockist, north east London

First dibs

600 bottles, 80 dinner seats, 250 bundles. Drop your email and we'll tell you the moment pre-orders and dinner bookings open, before any of it goes on Instagram.

One email about Nouveau, then the usual good stuff. Unsubscribe whenever.

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