Gamay

Gamay – black wine grape.
Beaujolais – France. De best wines on granite soil.
Light-bodied, strawberry aroma.
There are 10 famous cru’s in Beaujolais, like Fleurie, Moulin a Vent.
Several cru’s taste a lot stronger than one expects from a “Beaujolais”.

Beaujolais Primeur is ready within 6 weeks if done according to the “Meceration Carbonique”.
Consumption in The Netherlands as of the third Thursday of November.
Nowadays the Beaujolais Primeur is primarily exported to America.

In The Netherlands not a lot of Beaujolais Primeur is drunk anymore.
They are mostly replaced by Novello’s from Italy, which arrive in the first week of November.