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Encyclopedia > Gamay
A California Gamay
A California Gamay

Gamay is a purple-colored grape variety used to make red wines, most notably grown in Beaujolais. Its full name is Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc, and it probably originated as a mutation of Pinot Noir. It is a very old cultivar, being mentioned already in the 1400s. It has been cultivated because it makes for abundant production rather than due to the quality of the wine made from it. Image File history File links California_Gamay. ... Image File history File links California_Gamay. ... Species Vitis acerifolia Vitis aestivalis Vitis amurensis Vitis arizonica Vitis x bourquina Vitis californica Vitis x champinii Vitis cinerea Vitis x doaniana Vitis girdiana Vitis labrusca Vitis x labruscana Vitis lincecumii Vitis monticola Vitis mustangensis Vitis x novae-angliae Vitis palmata Vitis riparia Vitis rotundifolia Vitis rupestris Vitis shuttleworthii Vitis... This article is about the beverage. ... Beaujolais is a historical province and a wine-producing region in France. ... Pinot Noir vines at Clos de Bèze, Gervey-Chambertin, on the Côte dOr, France Pinot noir is a variety of Vitis vinifera, the red grape used commonly in winemaking, and may also refer to wines produced predominantly from pinot noir grapes. ... This Osteospermum Pink Whirls is a successful cultivar. ...


Confusingly the Gamay name has become attached to other varieties grown in California, which at one time were thought to be the true Gamay. The grape 'Napa Gamay' is now known to be Valdeguié, and the name Napa Gamay will no longer appear on labels after 2007. Gamay Beaujolais is considered to be an early ripening Californian clone of Pinot Noir. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The Valdeguié is a red wine grape variety primarily grown in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France, where it is generally known by the alias Gros Auxerrois. ...


Beaujolais wines (made entirely from the Gamay grape) have an intense cranberry aroma, and thus are easy to identify in blind tasting.


Gamay Noir is a permitted synonym for Gamay in the U.S.


Gamay is grown successfully by a small number of wineries in Australia to make a range of wines including light bodied red wines suitable for early drinking.


History

The Gamay grape is thought to have appeared first in the village of the Gamay, south of Beaune, in the 1360s.[1]. The grape brought relief to the village growers following the decline of the Black Death. In contrast to the Pinot Noir variety, Gamay ripened two weeks earlier and was less difficult to cultivate. It also produced a strong, fruitier wine in a much larger abundance. Beaune is a commune in eastern France, a sub-prefecture of the Côte dOr département, in the Burgundy région. ... Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411). ... Pinot Noir vines at Clos de Bèze, Gervey-Chambertin, on the Côte dOr, France Pinot noir is a variety of Vitis vinifera, the red grape used commonly in winemaking, and may also refer to wines produced predominantly from pinot noir grapes. ...


In July 1395, the Duke of Burgundy Philippe the Bold outlawed the cultivation of Gamay as being "a very bad and disloyal plant"-due in part to the varietal occupying land that could be used for the more "elegant" Pinot Noir. 60 years later, Philippe the Good, issued another edict against Gamay in which he stated the reasoning for the ban is that "The Dukes of Burgundy are known as the lords of the best wines in Christendom. We will maintain our reputation".[2] See: Philip III of France (1245-1285, king of France 1270-1285) Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (1363-1404, regent of France 1380-1388) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (Philip the Good or Philippe le Bon) (1396–1467) was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death. ...


Footnotes

  1. ^ Hugh Johnson, Vintage: The Story of Wine pg 133. Simon and Schuster 1989
  2. ^ ibid pg 134

External Links

  • Gamay in Australia

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Gamay Noir (496 words)
Gamay noir is the primary fl grape of France's Beaujolais region, where the wines are typically fermented, spared from aging, and consumed young to appreciate their fresh, fruity qualities, with more tang than tannin.
Gamay is also planted, but is less significant, in the Loire, Rhône, Jura and Savoie appellations of France.
There is relatively little gamay noir planted in California, even less than was thought to exist only a few years ago, because many vineyards, once thought to be planted to gamay noir, were positively identified by DNA "fingerprinting" as valdiguié in the 1990s.
Gamay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (385 words)
Gamay Beaujolais is considered to be an early ripening Californian clone of Pinot Noir.
Gamay Noir is a permitted synonym for Gamay in the U.S. Gamay is grown successfully by a small number of wineries in Australia to make a range of wines including light bodied red wines suitable for early drinking.
The Gamay grape is thought to have appeared first in the village of the Gamay, south of Beaune, in the 1360s.
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