varietyGamay
also: Gamay noir à jus blanc
Pinot's other well-known child, banished from the Côte d'Or by ducal edict and sent south to granite, where it built Beaujolais.
The story Tradition
Tradition holds — Philippe le Hardi ordered gamay out of the good slopes in 1395 and pinot noir back in. Whatever the duke's reasons, the split held: pinot took the limestone, gamay took the granite south of Mâcon.
Facts
| colour | black |
|---|---|
| country | France |
| region | Burgundy |
| confidence | medium · needs verification · updated 2026-09-16 |
Its kin
the vinePinot noirSame parentage story, opposite fate on the same hill.regionBurgundyThe region that expelled it from the Côte d'Or and still grows it further south.
Sources
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.