Beaujolais is a wine region cultivated — almost exclusively — with a single grape variety: Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc, or simply, Gamay. Employed to craft the iconic regional, Village, and Cru Beaujolais ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entire Beaujolais region in France grows the Gamay grape, but where the vineyard is located determines the quality of the wine ...

Each November, on the third Thursday of the month, the French giddily celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau. That’s when the fresh, fruity Gamay from the new vintage is rushed from the vineyards into shops and ...

Beaujolais in Motion: The New Energy of the French Wine Region Captivating the U.S. New York, NY – March 2, 2026 – Beaujolais is evolving. Beaujolais is undergoing a transformation. It is moving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most wine drinkers have heard of Beaujolais, but many still avoid it because of the negative connotations caused by Beaujolais ...

Everybody's a critic. Back in 1395, Philip the Bold banned the Gamay grape from Burgundy, proclaiming it low and crappy (well, technically, "très mauvais et très desloyaus," or evil and disloyal). For ...

As this country’s wine tastes shift away from bombast toward more balanced efforts, let’s imagine we could reduce that trend to a single wine from a single place. This wouldn’t be a wine made to floor ...

Every year, on the third Thursday of November (that's today!), Beaujolais Nouveau—the young, purple-pink wine made from the Gamay grape in France’s Beaujolais region, sold right after the vintage is ...

Franck Duboeuf and his late father Georges Duboeuf celebrate the first fruits of the season on Beaujolais Nouveau Day. The third Thursday of November is one of Franck Duboeuf’s favorite days of the ...

The latest harvest’s first bottles of Beaujolais wine are sold from the third Thursday of November. The young and ‘new’ red wine had long suffered from a reputation of poor quality, but it has ...

When I was covering an Oilers training camp in San Angelo circa 1980, I walked into a steakhouse, paid my $1 "membership" fee — Tom Green County was about as dry as dry got back then - and asked about ...