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Bella Gamay Methode Ancestraletext
90POINTS
16½/20

Bella Gamay Methode Ancestrale 2015

West Kelowna, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaFrom the same organic vineyard and juice that made up the 2015 Westbank Gamay Brut, six barrels were filled and placed under the cherry trees at Bella's Naramata site and waited for a full wild ferment to do its thing (ferment finished in the winery to 11.2 percent alcohol). Zero additives, this was hand bottled and tagged; there is no label on the bottle itself, but a singular paper catalogue tag affixed by string to the cage. Wild, salted earth and stone, funky rhubarb and juicy, just crushed wild strawberries, this pét-nat or pétillant naturel, is subtle but with a spark of intensity. The future of BC natural wine is shining.Tasted: 27 April 2016Tasted by: Treve RingPrices:
BC$40.00750mlwinery direct
Producer: Bella WinesDistributors: Storied Wines & Spirits
Grape: Gamay NoirCSPC: 549626