Beaujolais Nouveau is green this year. Have you ever tasted a new wine ?

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I had several wine growers in my family, and I know what is a new wine -- a wine just made -- : an acid beverage, just good to purge yourself if you have the audacity to drink more than two glasses. A wine needs to spend at least two years in an oak barrel to be served on a table. There is a local tradition since two centuries in France. You can't enter in a restaurant after mid November without seeing a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau on the table or a small poster saying "Beaujolais Nouveau has arrived". If you don't want to look stupid with your friends you have to taste it. In the 80's Beaujolais was as good as any new wine, if you see what I mean. With the help of chemistry and yeasts, I have drank since the 90's Beaujolais tasting, among other flavors, like cherries, like strawberries, and even like bananas ! It is more an encounter of the third type than a wine... Alright, I dined in a restaurant yesterday and "Beaujolais Nouveau has arrived" again. I tasted it, and... it is "green" this year. By green, I don't mean that it tastes like wine -- I don't dream : it will never happen --, or like green beans -- maybe for next year ? -- but like... grapes ! It is a good step : maybe we can hope to see no more in the future this "Beaujolais Nouveau" in restaurants but a Beaujolais grapes juice ? Have you ever tasted a new wine ? Is there also a new wine marketed in your country ? Are you a brave new wine amateur ?