Beaujolais Nouveau Day

On the third Thursday of November, France welcomes the first wine of the new harvest — Beaujolais Nouveau, bottled just weeks after the vintage and meant to be drunk young. It is, at its core, an autumn harvest celebration: the year's work in the fields, shared as a glass. These are the stones of that celebration: moss agate, the farmers' harvest stone of old Europe, and malachite and citrine, long linked with joy. For its beauty, its story, and whatever meaning you give it.