Beaujolais
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Beaujolais is a French Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée wine in the Burgundy region. Red Beaujolais wines are generally made of the Gamay grape, which has a thin skin and is low in tannin, but like mos
When Philippe the Bold outlawed the cultivation of Gamay in Burgundy, it pushed the grape south to the Beaujolais region.
Cru Beaujolais region of Régnié
Louis Jadot Beaujolais-Villages AOC 2004
Cru Beaujolais from Brouilly
Gamay
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Gamay is a purple-colored grape variety used to make red wines, most notably grown in Beaujolais and in the Loire Valley around Tours. Its full name is Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc. It is a very old cultiva
Beaujolais
…boh-zhə-LAY, French: ) is a French Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) wine in the Burgundy region. Red Beaujolais wines are generally made of the Gamay grape, which has a thin skin and is low in tannin, but like most AOC wines they are not labeled varietally. Whites, 1% of production, are made mostly…
Gamay
A Beaujolais Nouveau wine made from Gamay.
Vineyard in La Rochepot, Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. The closely spaced rows in the foreground are Gamay; in the background are more widely spaced rows of Pinot noir.
A sparkling Crémant de Bourgogne blanc de noirs (white of blacks) made from Pinot Noir and Gamay