{"id":11997,"date":"2026-10-27T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/2026\/10\/27\/the-worlds-best-gamay-2026-is-a-morgon\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:35:38","slug":"the-worlds-best-gamay-2026-is-a-morgon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/2026\/10\/27\/the-worlds-best-gamay-2026-is-a-morgon\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Best Gamay 2026 is a Morgon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 16th<\/sup> International Gamay Competition was held on 10 January at the Cit\u00e9 Internationale in Lyon. 615 cuv\u00e9es from 4 different countries (France, Switzerland, Italy and Brazil) were tasted. After honouring a Moulin-\u00e0-Vent<\/a>\u00a0in 2024 and a\u00a0Beaujolais Villages<\/a>\u00a0last year, a\u00a0Morgon\u00a0<\/a>was awarded the title of World\u2019s Best Gamay 2026!<\/p>\n\n

Learn more about the\u00a012 Beaujolais appellations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

A panel enchanted by 204 cuv\u00e9es<\/h2>\n\n

Each year, this competition is the opportunity for wine experts and enthusiasts to test their tastebuds. 130 panellists, brought together by the same passion for wine, blind-tasted the 625 wines entered in the competition. This first tasting allowed the panellists to award gold and silver medals. They awarded 204 medals, including 79 gold and 125 silver.<\/p>\n\n

View the full list of winners on the official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

After this first selection process, as always, a \u201cgrand jury\u201d of experts tasted the gold medallists again in order to award the title of \u201cWorld\u2019s Best Gamay\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

The World\u2019s Best Gamay is a Morgon 2024 from the Ruet Jean-Paul estate<\/h2>\n\n
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This Morgon cuv\u00e9e from the 2024 vintage is a rich, harmonious wine that combines freshness and finesse. It comes from old vines with an average age of 80 that thrive in clayey limestone soils. The grapes were harvested by hand and fully destemmed, and then left to macerate for a long time. This Morgan can be enjoyed now but will also keep well over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M\u00e9lodie Lardon, a wine merchant who was on the second panel that awarded the title said: \u201cthis wine enchants with its well-integrated oak, its great elegance and beautiful balance. The mouthfeel is precise, with a well-managed texture, fine tannins and a remarkable structure for the appellation. A fine and gourmet wine, an ideal pairing for rare meats or lamb-based dishes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

The Ruet Jean-Paul estate, a family business<\/h2>\n\n

Fabienne and Jean-Paul Ruet set up their operation in 1983 with 1 hectare of vines in the Beaujolais region. Over the years, driven by a passion for a job well done, they acquired many hectares of vines of various Beaujolais appellations such as Brouilly, Fleurie, Morgon, C\u00f4te de Brouilly, Beaujolais Villages, Beaujolais white, allowing them to offer their customers a large variety of cuv\u00e9es. Every weekend for the last 35 years, they have travelled to the capital to sell their wines on Parisian markets. Their son, Fran\u00e7ois, joined the family operation and shares their work ethic and passion for wine, but provides a new dynamic. Their daughter No\u00e9mie has also worked on the estate for the last 2 years. The perfect way to continue this incredible family-run venture they built from the ground up.<\/p>\n\n

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The Ruet family: No\u00e9mie, Jean-Paul, Fabienne and Fran\u00e7ois Ruet \u00a9 Domaine Ruet Jean-Paul, Saint-Etienne-des-Oulli\u00e8res<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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The 16th International Gamay Competition was held on 10 January at the Cit\u00e9 Internationale in Lyon. 615 cuv\u00e9es from 4 different countries (France, Switzerland, Italy and Brazil) were tasted. After honouring a Moulin-\u00e0-Vent\u00a0in 2024 and a\u00a0Beaujolais Villages\u00a0last year, a\u00a0Morgon\u00a0was awarded the title of World\u2019s Best Gamay 2026! Learn more about the\u00a012 Beaujolais appellations. A panel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":608,"featured_media":10727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[192,195],"thematique":[],"class_list":["post-11997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-gamay-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"thematique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaujolais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematique?post=11997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}