Gamay be an early ripening Californian clone of Pinot noir. Despite similar names the grapes "Gamay du Rhône" and "Gamay St-Laurent" are not the Beaujolais grape either but rather the southwestern France grape Abouriou. In 1929, Gamay was crossed with the table grape Seidentraube (also known as "Luglienga bianca") to produce the white wine grape Regner. Gamay Gamay is a purple-colored grape variety used to make red wines, most notably grown in Beaujolais and in the Loire Valley around Tours. Its full name is Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc. It is a very old cultivar, mentioned as long ago as the
Petite Terre Islands Petite Terre Islands Petite Terre Islands (, literally "Islands of the Small Land") are two small uninhabited islands located about to the south-east of the island of Grande-Terre (Guadeloupe), in the Lesser Antilles. These two islands are named Petite Terre ("Small Land") in contrast with the much larger Grande-Terre ("Large Land") island. Petite Terre is made up of two islands: Terre de Bas island to the southwest and the smaller Terre de Haut island to the northeast. Their combined land area is 1.68 km² (168 hectares). Terre de Bas island (literally "Low Land" island or "Down Land" island) is so