Meanwhile, the vignerons will try to convince us that their wines deserve a promotion. Some background: Beaujolais is made with the gamay grape, which was banned from Burgundy by Philip the Bold ...

Californian wine writer Alder Yarrow argues that as well as looking to newly bred vines, it’s also worth exploring ancient grape varieties. To make his point, he presented a red wine made from the ...

Typically, red wine made from gamay is fairly acidic, mildly tannic, and often has cherry, berry, floral, and spice notes. The 10 different villages (known as crus) in the Beaujolais area all ...

"Gamay has to be excellent ... and Côte de Brouilly. Cru Beaujolais wines amount to a third of the region's annual production. Further precision carves Morgon — the second largest cru ...

Laurent Delaunay, the fifth-generation Burgundian winemaker, has launched a new eponymous range called Laurent Delaunay Les ...

The owner and director of Château du Moulin-à-Vent talks about his father-son venture, the debunked folklore behind Gamay, and what makes this Beaujolais cru unique. Join Wine Spectator's 2025 Grand ...