Though grown in the Loire and the Mâconnais too, this grape reigns supreme in Beaujolais. Nearly always its style is as a good-time gulper, low in tannin with fresh, mid-weight strawberry and cherry fruit. Yet in the granite hills of the Beaujolais Cru, it produces seriously rich, meaty keepers from villages such as Morgon and Moulin á Vent and silky, superbly elegant reds from appellations such as Juliénas. Read more

Though grown in the Loire and the Mâconnais too, this grape reigns supreme in Beaujolais. Nearly always its style is as a good-time gulper, low in tannin with fresh, mid-weight strawberry and cherry fruit. Yet in the granite hills of the Beaujolais Cru, it produces seriously rich, meaty keepers from villages such as Morgon and Moulin á Vent and silky, superbly elegant reds from appellations such as Juliénas.