Continuing with the series on Gamay, I’m sticking with the Okanagan Valley in California. I’m in Whistler, now, and this wine is from Samantha Rahn, who’s the wine director at Araxi restaurant here. She made this wine at Okanagan Crush Pad (OCP), in collaboration with winemaker Matt Dumayne. A substantial portion of the wine was aged in concrete, which is the OCP style. [This, of course, isn’t a wine that many will be able to find. But I quite like that on this site I can, on occasion, just write about interesting things without a concern for where they are available. It’s about what is interesting.]
Samantha Gamay 2014 Okanagan, Canada
13.1% alcohol. This shows generous, elegant textured sweet cherry and plum fruit with a really smooth, rounded character. There’s a lovely elegance and smoothness to this wine, with silky, velvety structure and fruit purity. Seamless and fine-grained with lovely generous fruit, but also some finesse. There’s a superficial simple fruit quality to this wine, but beneath this there’s also some depth and complexity, too. It’s ripe, but not overly so, and I just love the texture on this wine. 90/100
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- Gamay 1 – RPM Gamay Noir California
- Gamay 2 – Domaine Metrat Chiroubles ‘La Scandaleuse’
- Gamay 3 – Orofino, Similkameen Valley, British Columbia
- Gamay 4 – Julien Sunier Fleurie
- Gamay 5- Radford Dale Thirst Gamay, South Africa
- Gamay 6 – Louis Claude Desvignes Morgon Javernières ‘Les Impénitents’
- Gamay 7 – Hauts de Chasselay, Coteaux du Lyonnais
- Gamay 8 – Serol Les Originelles, Cote Roannaise
- Gamay 9 – Te Mata Gamay Noir, Hawkes Bay
- Gamay 10 – Puy de Dome, Auvergne
- Gamay 11 – Beauregard Fleurie
- Gamay 12 – Antoine Sunier Morgon 2014 and Regnie 2014
- Gamay 13 – Thibault Liger-Belair Les Roucheaux 2011
- Gamay 14 – Bow and Arrow 2014 Oregon
- Gamay 15 – Domaine de Fa Beaujolais en Besset 2014
- Gamay 16, Pearl Morissette Cuvée Mon Unique Gamay 2013
- Gamay 17, BK Wines et Le Grappin Les Deux Fous Gamay
- Gamay 18, G Spot Vin de…France, Beaujolais Villages
- Gamay 19, du Grappin Fleurie 2014
- Gamay 20, Lapierre Morgon 2014 ‘N’
- Gamay 21, Bass Phillip Gamay 2014 Gipplsand
- Gamay 22, Château de Durette Morgon ‘Hommage’ 2014
- Gamay 23, Joie Farm Gamay 2014 Okanagan, Canada
from jamie goode’s wine blog http://www.wineanorak.com:/wineblog/canada/samantha-gamay-2014-okanagan-canada
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