Chénas

Produced by 200 wine-growers across Chénas in the département of Rhône and la Chapelle-de-Guinchay in Saône-et-Loire, Chénas has a ruby colour tinged with garnet, and floral aromas of peony and rose, tinged with spicy, woody notes as it ages. A generous, full-bodied wine for laying down, it is nonetheless soft on the palate. On the rolling slopes where oak trees once stood, the vines of this appellation nourish the rarest of the fine wines of Beaujolais, fine and distinctive. Legend even has it that the grape variety got its name because of this wine: when a wine-maker storing his wine in a cask dipped into it, he tasted, tasted, and kept on tasting until he started singing all the notes of the scale (gamut > Gamay).