Dominique Piron 2024 "Coq Leon" Vin de France Gamay

Each year this is one the most fun wines we carry…a no-brainer red that some of our customers enjoy with a little chill.  The blend is 95% Gamay from Beaujolais and Beaujolais Villages combined with 5% Gamaret. The latter, a little-known variety created in the 1990s by crossing Gamay with Reichensteiner, had hopes of being authorized for production in Beaujolais, but this never happened. Consequently, there are plots of these vines growing in little-known villages in the region and occasionally, as in this case, it is blended with Gamay to make a plump, darker, some would say more fun wine to be enjoyed without fuss with the hearty fare served locally.  Julien Revillon, now head of Dominique Piron’s operation, owns such a plot of vines. The wine is in fact plump, delicious, without artifice, but absolutely satisfying and food friendly. Glou Glou!