Grape Varieties: Gamay Wines

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Gamay has its spiritual home in Beaujolais, a region south of Burgundy where ten villages can name the red wines they make from Gamay after the village.  These then villages are St.Amour, Julienas, Chenas, Moulin-a-Vent, Fleurie, Chiroubles, Morgon, Regnie, Brouilly, Cote de Brouilly.  All of these grow Gamay vines and it is the terroir and microclimate of each particular villages which generates the different style of Beaujolais that Games from each village produces.

On the whole Gamay makes fresh and lively red wines with cherry fresh fruit varying in depth from spriteley Chiroubles and Regnie through lush Fleurie to brooding Moulin-a-Vent and its fuller bodied cousins Morgon and Chenas.  Gamay grown outside these villages but still within the Beajolais region may be labelled as either Beaujolais or Beaujolais Villages.

Whilst Gamay is grown outside Beaujolais in areas such as Cotes Roannaise (where Robert Serol makes a brilliant example) and the banks of the Loire river near Touraine, it is not widely seen outside France.

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