Category: Gamay

I love side-by-side tasting. Nothing makes similarities and differences more apparent than by tasting wines together. I'm a big fan of Beaujolais, especially during the holiday season. People rave about the ease of pairing Pinot Noir to lots of different foods, but Gamay is even easier. Low in tannin, happy... Read More

Why don't people drink more Beaujolais? Every time I open a bottle, I ask myself that very question. For roughly $25 you can get a great (not just good, not just tasty, but really damn nice) bottle of wine and tonight's Moulin-a-Vent (one of the 10 Beaujolais crus) proves my point exactly.... Read More

Beaujolais. I've written of my love of Beaujolais before, but now we're getting to the heart of the matter. Beaujolais is a wine region in France, considered part of the Burgundy region though Gamay is the primary red grape used for winemaking (vs. Pinot Noir for the rest of the... Read More

  Today is a big day in France. The third Thursday of November is the day that each year's Beaujolais Nouveau is cracked open and tasted for the first time.  The wine is literally just months old, but the event is used to get a sense of the vintage as... Read More