Monday @ Noon EST, 9AM Pacific: Beaujolais and Gamay

Randy; sorry, I couldn't do it this morning; busy in the cellar. I love really good Gamay, from Beaujolais and Loire, and have been devoting a lot of attention to it as a producer/lone voice in the wilderness/hippie lunatic. Hope I get in on the next conversation!

Sorry I too missed it because of a conflict. Good topic. (Gamay is interesting in California because unlike many European grapes it has not produced a recognizeable cousin of the French Beaujolais prototype, with the exception of "Nouveau" styles, tasting more of the method -- carbonic maceration -- than the grape, as I mentioned elsewhere; also to complicate matters further, a clone of Pinot Noir used in California for light red wines was long ago named misleadingly"Gamay Beaujolais.")