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 Rivière landing near the mouth during the early 17th century. The river lends its name to the small community of Petite Riviere Bridge. Petite Rivière Petite Rivière is a river in Nova Scotia, Canada entirely within Lunenburg County. It is fed by numerous lakes, and a portion of the watershed is the drinking water supply for the town of Bridgewater. Three of the lakes on Petite Rivière (Hebb, Millipisigate, and Minamkeak) are the only known habitat of the Atlantic Whitefish. Through damming of the lakes, some of the water that once fed the Medway River now flows through the Petite Rivière