CL&P Blog (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
By Alan White Beaujolais wine, pressed from Gamay grapes grown on the hills above the Saone valley, has never had the pretention of its neighboring Burgundy Pinot Noirs to the North or Rhone Grenache/Syrahs to the south. In its heyday...
Chow Pick (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Hot summer days and rosé go hand in hand, and Frog’s Leap’s “Pink” is as refreshing and easy-drinking a wine as it gets. It’s made primarily from the Valdiguié grape (known in the United States as Napa Gamay), whose subtlety has been its downfall in bolder red wines, but whose mellowness shines in this rosé. Fresh and crisp, with brut fruit flavors like rhubarb and gooseberry, “Pink” is also low in...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
WINE: The French wine still has the power to delight wine enthusiasts - despite some difficult times for growers, writes John Wilson
Good Wine Under $20 (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Think Gamay and you probably think Beaujolais. I hope you think real Beaujolais , but maybe you think Beaujolais Nouveau, the grapey brew that arrives just before Thanksgiving in time for your leftover turkey sandwiches. Gamay is one of the world's most food-friendly and affordable red wines. It's also the perfect wine for beating back winter blahs and blues. (image from Kobrand USA ) The next time...
thewinepost.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
I specifically tasted the wines from this domaine purely because I will be staying at the Martin's gite later this year, which is built pretty much on top of their winery. Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire 2005 - Made with Gamay grapes, I found this to be suprisingly full and rounded. Quite nice. Bourgogne Rouge 2005 - Very good [...]
Doktor Weingolb (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
No substituting a Gamay for a Malbec in today's post -- although I will say I'm going to pretty much offer a bonafide endorsement as this bottle was darned close to making it into my fave top five last year. I thought I was the owner of all remaining bottles in Montreal back in November. And I think I was until the SAQ went and restocked the warehouse with more. Now there's enough for everyone who...
Cravings (Free subscription) | 17/12/2007
For wines this season, I’d make a trip to SIP FINE WINE (67 Fifth Ave, Brooklyn; 718-638-6105) in Park Slope. The selection here is fantastic. You'll find anything from a 2005 Sonoma County Gamay Noir by Marshall Family ($17) (which the wine director of Blue Hill, Claire Paparazzo, was recently pouring for tasting menus) to a 2006 Hahnmühle Spätburgünder Spätlese Trocken (A German white Pinot Noir!)...
Israelity (Free subscription) | 22/11/2007
If you're into oenology then you probably already know that last week marked the release of 2007 Beaujolais Nouveau. At Israel's Golan Winery, The Golan Gamay Nouveau 2007, the first red wine from the 2007 vintage, was released November 14. This week, several others were rolled out and some of the country's wine connoisseurs came back [...]
Apartment Therapy LA (Free subscription) | 20/11/2007
Cheers! Not sure what to bring to Thanksgiving Dinner? Well, Good Food on kcrw reminded us that as of last Thursday the Beaujolais Nouveau season was upon us. Made from the Gamay grape (which is lower in sulfites and...
Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 15/11/2007
C'est vrai. Today, Washington will be flooded with the sweet nectar of Beaujolais Nouveaux , and the city is gearing up to celebrate the light pink wine. The Beaujolais, released every year on the third Thursday in November, is made of Gamay grapes and fermented for a mere three weeks. Staying up late to fete the wine at one of DC's many French restaurants is worth the Friday morning hangover. But...
yumsugar (Free subscription) | 15/11/2007
Beaujolais Nouveau A type of very young red wine. It's made from the best Gamay grapes from the Beaujolais region, which is located in the southern-most part of Burgundy, France. The wine is fermented for only seven to nine weeks and is officially released each year on the third Thursday of November. The smooth wine is an excellent companion to Thanksgiving dinner. pronounced beau-zhoh-lay noo-voe...
Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 14/11/2007
Beaujolais Nouveau Day may be a marketing ploy to shift low-quality wine, but it's a good excuse to start drinking a fruity Gamay before breakfast. The wine is released at one minute past midnight on the third Thursday of each November (the 15th this year). The race to be the first to bring it back to the UK was started in the 1970s and reached its peak in the 1980s, with everything from parachutes...
Vinography (Free subscription) | 01/11/2007
Every year on the third Thursday in November, the French have a tradition of celebrating the harvest by drinking Beaujolais Nouveau, the very young wine made from the first pressings of Gamay grapes picked only a month or two earlier. These "traditional" celebrations often tend to be drunk-fests of the first order, made all the worse by the fact that they involve wine that is quite close to undrinkable...
Wine Tasting (Free subscription) | 27/10/2007
A Savoury Gamay Being Filled into Unlikely Containers...October in the Loire.There are times when, being cash-strapped, you got to find new, inventive ways to purchase good-quality wine, especially for your daily needs, and buying wine in bulk ("vin en vrac"...
take 3 eggs (Free subscription) | 26/10/2007
Okay, I was intrigued by the label. I had heard of Pinot Noir, but Te Mata Woodthorpe Gamay Noir 2007 was new to me. The Te Mata Woodthorpe label is one that I knew, so feeling just a little adventurous and being in the mood for a glass or two of red wine (it is [...]
