WSA Tastes Gamay and Decides Oregon Does it Better!

Of all the Mix Magazine tastings we participated in, the Beaujolais tasting was probably the most disappointing. These light-bodied, summer-appropriate reds have crept up in price, but not in complexity. Much of what we tried was dull, uninteresting and not worth the price.

Enter Oregon gamay-based wines! Katherine Cole snuck a few of these into the tasting and they immediately stood out, offering multi-dimensional flavors of red fruit, baking spices and earthy notes, all backed by a fuller, richer body than what we find in Beaujolais. Hopefully, this a grape Willamette Valley winemakers will continue to experiment with!

You can read more about our Beaujolais tasting here.