Beaujolais Gallery Latest

Gallery: autumn in the vineyards of Beaujolais

October 23, 2019October 23, 2019 jamiegoode 6092 Views Beaujolais, Gamay

Some pictures from yesterdays walk through the vineyards of Fleurie and Juliénas in Beaujolais

Fleurie

Marc Delienne walking through Fleurie vineyards with Mike Turner

This is the almost impossibly steep La Vigne des Fous vineyard: it has to be worked by hand

Red granite soils typical of Fleurie

Bush vine Gamay, typical of Beaujolais

Rockier granitic soils at the top of the hill

Finer, almost sandy granitic soils

Juliénas vine

Very occasionally you find a vine like this: it’s Gamay Teinturier, and we found some berries still on it, which were red fleshed. There are a few varieties that come under this name, and they were originally planted to add colour to the true Gamay (whose proper name is Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc). They are pretty rare, but kind of cool.

A teinturier berry. Harry Crowther is hand model.

Juliénas