Various shades of Gamay

All it needed was a marriage💕!

Banned by Philippe le Hardi, Duke of Burgundy, in the 14th century, Gamay received its letters of nobility from the Loire Valley thanks to the Comtesse de Montebise.

According to the testimony of family descendant J. de Cory, in 1838, after her marriage, Comtesse de Montebise took up residence at the Château de Monteaux and proposed the introduction of Gamay, which her family had cultivated in the Beaujolais region. She arranged for the purchase of the plants and the services of a skilled winemaker, thus initiating the spread of this variety throughout the Loire Valley region.

The Cory family has thus played a decisive role in the successful cultivation and promotion of this exquisite grape variety in the Loire Valley.

The white-juiced black Gamay vinified in two colors.

• Gamay is used to produce rosé wines in the Anjou and Saumur appellations.
• In Touraine, Gamay is mainly vinified as a red wine or blended with Côt or Cabernet.
• Three other appellations use Gamay as the main grape in their red wine production: Valençay (at the crossroads of Berry, Sologne and Touraine), Châteaumeillant, in Berry (in the heart of Grand Meaulnes country) and Touraine Mesland (around Chaumont-sur-Loire, on the outskirts of Blois).

Gamay accounts today for about 20% of the total production of red and rosé wines in the Loire Valley region.

No time to wait, invite Gamay to your cellar!