They dig in their heels like vineyards of foot soldiers yielding 10 tons per acre. Boots on the ground. The Gamay varietal has tremendous rigour and some of the largest clusters in viticulture, “Le Grande Tetons - The White Zin Killer”. Grown as far south as Northern Africa and northerly to Vancouver (Okeenagan Valley) this grape varietal once spanned large swaths of land while labor was at a premium – blanketing the landscape of both the Napa Valley and Burgundian region.
Here here! A “lip smacking” D- Day for the over planted Pinot farm. Your twenty- ten ”License to Chill”.
We would enjoy more due diligence surround “large swaths of Gamay in Burgundy” so please bring it on. I will say in confidence, it was banished from all the lands of Burgundy by the ruling class during the post- plague era … so one can only assume a sh$(*&%t ton was grown there.
as the story goes: yields are high, 10 tons per acre, so the poor (who couldn’t afford to pay laborers) could indeed afford to pick this varietal themselves
…also would love to learn more about it’s introduction to Northern Africa. a very hearty, rigorous vine indeed
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