Racine Rosé Gamay VDP

Racine Rosé Gamay VDP from Comte Tolosan, France. Light pink color. Fruity nose of raspberries and crushed strawberries. On the palate round and soft, nice balance.

Gamay is actually a fairly mediocre, but very productive grape variety, but it scores on the granite soil of Beaujolais and produces beautiful wines there. Striking characteristics of the wines from this grape are a fruity taste, a strong smell, little acid, and a high alcohol content. Also successfully grown in Switzerland. In California the grape is called napa gamay. Gamay beaujolais: despite the name, this is not a gamay, but a variety of pinot noir in California.