
Gamay
Learn about Gamay — taste profile, popular regions and more …
Delightfully playful, yet at its best capable of impressive gravitas, Gamay is responsible for juicy, berry-packed wines from Beaujolais and parts of the Loire. The variety is also widely planted in Savoie, Valle d'Aosta and Switzerland. Gamay has recently found success on a small but growing scale in Oregon.
Tasting Notes for Gamay
Gamay makes a dry, red wine that is light in body. In its simplest form as Beaujolais Nouveau, a wine released just a couple of months after harvest, Gamay is fresh and full of cranberry and cherry candy flavors. The Villages and Crus Beaujolais wines, given more time on the vine and in the winery, are capable of improving with age and offer blackberry or ripe cherry flavors with enticing aromas of baking spice, violets and wet earth.
Perfect Food Pairings for Gamay
Gamay is delicious on its own; the simpler bottling can even benefit from a light chill before serving. It is the quintessential picnic red and goes well with simple charcuterie, Asian food, roasted duck or Thanksgiving turkey with cranberry sauce.
Sommelier Secrets for Gamay
Within Beaujolais, there are ten different Crus, or highly ranked grape-growing communes. Each one has its own distinct personality—Fleurie is delicate and floral, Côte de Brouilly is concentrated and elegant and Morgon is serious, structured, and age-worthy, capable of rivaling some red Burgundies.
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Duboeuf Beaujolais Villages 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Chiroubles 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Moulin-a-Vent 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Louis Jadot Morgon (Beaujolais) 1999Gamay from Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Fleurie Prestige 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Louis Jadot Beaujolais Villages (375ML Half-bottle) 1999Gamay from Burgundy, France
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Beringer Gamay Beaujolais 1999Gamay from California
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Duboeuf Morgon Jean-Ernest Descombes 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Regnie 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Beaujolais Villages (half-bottle) 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Joseph Drouhin Beaujolais Villages 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Milenage White 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Louis Jadot Morgon Ch. de Bellevue 1999Gamay from Burgundy, France
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Louis Jadot Beaujolais 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Louis Jadot Beaujolais Villages 1999Gamay from Burgundy, France
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Barton & Guestier Beaujolais St. Louis 1999Gamay from Burgundy, France
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M. Picard Beaujolais-Villages 1999Gamay from Burgundy, France
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Pindar Gamay Beaujolais 1999Gamay from New York, Other U.S.
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Duboeuf Milenage 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Barton & Guestier Beaujolais Villages 1999Gamay from Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Fleurie 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Jaffelin Beaujolais Villages 1999Gamay from Burgundy, France
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Joseph Drouhin Morgon (Beaujolais) 1999Gamay from Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Fleurie Chateau des Deduits 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Chiroubles Domaine Desmures 1999Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France