Gamay Beaujolais Gamay Beaujolais Gamay Beaujolais is a varietal designation for a Californian grape variety, an early ripening clone of Pinot noir. In the late 1930s, an early pioneer of the American viticulture, Paul Masson, brought with him several Burgundian grapes for his winery in California. One of those grapes he believed to be the Gamay variety from the Beaujolais region in France, which in the 1940s University of California at Davis (UCD) researchers christened "Gamay Beaujolais". In the late 1960s, UCD scientists decided that Gamay Beaujolais was a clonal selection of Pinot noir, and that California's version of the true Gamay
Petite size Petite size In fashion and clothing, a petite size is a standard clothing size designed to fit women of shorter height than the average, typically . Regular female sized clothing is designed for a woman at least tall (without shoes) and will not fit a woman of significantly shorter height well. Even if the bust, waist and hip circumferences are appropriate, the sleeve lengths, leg inseam lengths and vertical torso measurements (such as the back length and bust-waist length) must be altered significantly to fit well. Non-petite size dresses cannot be easily altered to produce the equivalent petite size, since,