Gamay Rouge

Gamay from the Gamay grape grown in the region Beaujolias of France. This grape is purple and is used for red wines and when grown in acid soil, acid soil to soften the natural acidity of the grapes.

In addition to grapes grown in the Beaujolais, these grapes are also grown in some vineyards in Ontario, California and New Zealand. One of the distinct characteristics of wines from Gamay grapes is fruity taste, fragrance, and the strong resemblance Pinot Black (% http://www.wineaccess.com/wine/grape/Pinot 20Noir). When you smell this wine, you get the smell of cherries, pears, bananas and bubblegum curiously. It also has a hint of wood in the smell, because it is aged in oak barrels.

Gamay is the best when consumed within two years after it was bottled. This is not a wine that improves with age. However, this is not a well known wine in large part due to the fact that the grapes have been outlawed from French vineyards in the late 14th century by Philip, the Duke of Burgundy. There are different varieties of this wine, which include:

aec 2006 Beaujolais from Domaine des Coteaux de Cruix. This wine is 13% acid and keeps more than two years in bottle. It differs in that it has a slight taste of pepper and is one of the best wines you can use to marinate the steaks, like Zinfandel (http://www.wineaccess.com/wine/grape / Zinfandel). It is also a good wine to have with a good steak.

aec 2006 Morgon Domaine Louis Claude Desvignes. This wine is known for its pizazz loaded with flavors of black fruit.

aec 2006 Red Napa Gamay. This wine is full of the flavor of strawberries and wine is a unique summer. You can sit and enjoy a glass of wine as you dine on foods popular during the summer. It goes well with cheese, fruit, sandwiches and salads, you can essentially serve this wine in any event all year. This wine is available only to the cellar, where it is sold directly to customers.

aec 2007 Laboure-Roi Beaujolais Nouveau. Direct from the Burgundy region of France, this wine is spicy and tangy Gamay. The fruity aroma and taste is evident as soon as you open the bottle.

Even if the wines are red wines, Gamay, they lack the deep red color that is usually associated with this type of wine. Instead, it has a purple tinge to this topic and there are lots of rose and sparkling wines from the Gamay grape, as well. It is primarily a wine drinking on its own, but you can mix it with other wines. Note that this in turn other red wine a pleasant shade of pink.

Although there Beaujolais wines produced in other countries of the world, the true wine of the Gamay grape from France. Wines with the name coming from California are actually made from grapes Pinot Black. The vineyards of the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada, are the closest and Gamay wines of France are called Gamay Law. There are also wineries in Oregon's Willamette wine region as a form of harvesting the grapes for making wine.