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Encyclopedia > Gamay Noir

Gamay is a purple-colored grape variety used to make red wines, most famously grown in Beaujolais. Its full name is Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc, and it is probably originated as a mutation of Pinot Noir.


Confusingly the Gamay name has become attached to other varieties grown in California which were at one time were thought to be the true Gamay. 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.


Gamay Noir is a permitted synonym for Gamay in the US.


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BRICK HOUSE VINEYARDS (829 words)
Gamay emerged as the poor man's Pinot; it was widely planted on the Haute Cote and on the plains of Burgundy by peasants who rented lesser vineyard sites from their Lords.
Noir a Jus Blanc (fl Gamay with the white juice) was seen to be encroaching on the sacred soils of the Grand Crus...farmed by some of Burgundy's most powerful men.
By 1855, 87percent of the Cote d'Or was planted to Gamay Noir a Jus Blanc.
Gamay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (360 words)
Confusingly the Gamay name has become attached to other varieties grown in California, which at one time were thought to be the true Gamay.
Gamay Beaujolais is considered to be an early ripening Californian clone of Pinot Noir.
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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