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Search Rank 3025
Over all vintages, this was the
3025th most popular wine on Wine-Searcher last year.
Search rank last month: 2475th
| Critic | Score | When to drink |
| Huon Hooke | 86/100 | |
| CellarTracker | 83/100 (8 notes from 6 users ) | |
| Vinum Wine Magazine | 15/20 | 2012 to 2014 |
| Award Organization | Award Year | Result |
| International Wine Challenge | 2013 | Commended |
| International Wine Challenge | 2013 | Silver |
| Concours General Agricole Paris | 2012 | Silver |
| Concours des Grands Vins de France Macon | 2012 | Bronze |
| Japan Wine Challenge | 2012 | Bronze |
| Vinalies Internationales | 2012 | Or |
Gamay (Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc in full) is a dark-skinned grape variety famous for producing the light-style red wines of Beaujolais. While the variety offers fresh red fruit and candied aromas, it typically delivers little in the way of flavor concentration and body weight.
Characteristic fruit aromas of Gamay wines are red cherries and strawberries, often with boiled candy and banana notes. Some darker wines from the granite soils of the Beaujolais Crus can show more dark raspberry and black-pepper qualities. Gamay usually has a good acid structure with very low tannins, making it better suited f ... more
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Beaujolais Villages wine region
Beaujolais Villages is the appellation for red, white and rose wines from an area in the north and west of the Beaujolais region. The terroir here is recognized as being particularly well suited to the production of Beaujolais wines and the term villages indicates this slightly higher quality. The villages in question are the 38 communes in this specified area. Each may append its own name to the Beaujolais Villages title, provided the wine is made solely from grapes grown within that specific commune.
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Beaujolais wine region
Beaujolais is an important wine region of eastern France, famous for its vibrant, fruity red wines made from Gamay. It is located immediately south of Burgundy, of which it is sometimes considered to be a part, despite being within the Rhone administrative region.
The widespread plantings of ... more
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