
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 Morgon 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Domaine Jules Desjourneys Moulin-a-Vent 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- RP
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Vincent Girardin Moulin-a-Vent Domaine de la Tour du Bief 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WS
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Duboeuf Morgon Jean-Ernest Descombes 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WS
- RP
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Henry Fessy Fleurie 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WE
- WS
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Duboeuf Morgon Belles Grives 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- RP
- WE
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Domaine Cheysson Chiroubles 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- RP
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Henry Fessy Beaujolais-Villages 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Chateau de la Chaize Brouilly 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WE
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Duboeuf Morgon Cote Du Py 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WE
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Duboeuf Moulin-a-Vent Domaine des Rosiers 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WE
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Duboeuf Brouilly 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WS
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Laboure Roi Beaujolais Villages St. Armand 2009Gamay from Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Fleurie Domaine des Quatre Vents 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- RP
- W&S
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Duboeuf Morgon Domaine des Versauds 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WE
- RP
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Henry Fessy Brouilly 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WE
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Domaine du Clos Roussely Touraine Canaille 2009Gamay from Touraine, Loire, France
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Henry Fessy Morgon 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WE
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Domaine de Colette Beaujolais Villages 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Louis Jadot Beaujolais Villages 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Henry Fessy Moulin-a-Vent 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- WS
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Joseph Drouhin Beaujolais Villages 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
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Duboeuf Beaujolais Villages 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- W&S
- RP
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Edmunds St. John Bone-Jolly Gamay Noir 2009Gamay from El Dorado, Sierra Foothills, California
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Damien Coquelet Beaujolais Villages 2009Gamay from Beaujolais, Burgundy, France
- RP