Gamay

Gamay is a French red grape variety which is solely responsible for the wines of Beaujolais in central-eastern France. Its full name is Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc which draws attention to the fact that it is a red grape variety, but has pale flesh and therefore pale juice.The vine is precocious, budding and ripening early, and is commonly vinified using carbonic maceration - a technique which produces brightly coloured, lighter, softer wines by fermenting whole berries in a carbon dioxide rich environment prior to crushing.