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Top 5 Gamay at the LCBO
Adamo Huebel Grapes Estates Grower's Series Unoaked Gamay 2018, VQA Four Mile Creek, Niagara Peninsula
Ontario, Canada
18651
Château Des Charmes St. David's Bench Vineyard Gamay Noir Droit 2018, VQA St. David's Bench, Niagara On The Lake
Ontario, Canada
346742
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Discover the Wines of New York State
By Sara d’Amato This feature was commissioned by the New York Wine and Grape Foundation. It is hard to believe that the wines of New York come from a single state. From the iconic nervy rieslings of the Finger Lakes, the merlot-based blends of the North Fork of Long Island, the dry rosés of the […] More
Great wines to buy by the case These are not 97 point wines (but not too far off!). With the recent proliferation of online wine sales, our inboxes, like yours, are overflowing with offers that look too good to be true. It’s tempting to click and purchase. But if you’ve lost all confidence in hyper-inflated […] More
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Gamay is a purple-coloured grape variety used mostly to make red wines, most notably grown in Beaujolais and in the Loire Valley around Tours. It is sometimes used to make rosés as well as sparkling wines such as Cerdon de Bugey. Gamay-based wines are typically light bodied and fruity. Wines meant for immediate consumption are typically made using carbonic maceration, where the grapes are fermented in whole bunches under a blanket of CO2, before being pressed, a method that emphasizes a bright fruitiness (and sometimes gives less desirable notes reminiscent of bananas). Wines meant to be drunk after some modest aging tend to have more body and are produced by semi-carbonic fermentation, where fermentation starts in whole bunches, before the grapes are gradually punched down, in a winemaking style closer to the burgundian approach. The latter are produced mostly in the designated Crus areas of northern Beaujolais (Morgon, Fleurie, Moulin-à-Vent, etc.) where the wines typically have the flavour of strawberries, cherries and spices.
