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Five top examples of a hot new red-wine grape

Five top examples of a hot new red-wine grape

For too many years, gamay has been overshadowed by pinot. But that’s changing as growers experiment more to enhance its unique characters.

You won’t find many people as obsessed with the gamay grape as Renata Morello and Oliver Rapson of Lyons Will vineyard in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges.

When the couple bought a vineyard in the cool-climate, high-altitude region a little over a decade ago, one of the first things they did was supplement the existing planting of pinot noir with a hectare of gamay vines.

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