Gamay natural wine the grape behind the revolution
In 1395, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, issued an edict banning Gamay from the Côte d’Or vineyards he controlled, describing it as a ‘very bad and disloyal plant.’ He was protecting Pinot Noir’s commercial dominance. He was also, inadvertently, redirecting Gamay south to the Beaujolais hills, where it would spend the next 600 years […]