The GOODS from Bella Wines

Vancouver, BC | Bella Wines Ltd. is pleased to announce the much anticipated opening of their “bubble” tasting room May 15th. Located at 4320 Gulch Road, the tasting room will be open seven days a week from 11am to 5pm, May through September and by appointment in the off season.

“As the only BC winery exclusively producing sparkling wines, we are excited to provide a tasting experience for traditional sparkling wine enthusiasts visiting the Naramata wine region,” says Jay Drysdale, winemaker and co-owner of Bella Wines. “To celebrate the opening of our Bella Bubble Room we have pulled some old vintages from library stock to not only promote the micro-climates of our grower style sparkling wines but to also showcase how they age,” concludes Drysdale.

Coinciding with the Bella Bubble Room opening is Bella’s release of Western Canada’s only natural ancestrale sparkling wine: Bella 2014 Methode Ancestrale Sparkling Rosé.

Traditional sparkling wine implies a second fermentation happens in the bottle to produce bubbles in still wine. With methode ancestrale its about capturing all of its effervescence from the first fermentation. What makes Bella’s Ancestrale sparkling wine unique is that it was crafted without the use of commercial yeasts or additives, without the use of sulphur and the grapes came from a certified organic vineyard. Bella’s Ancestrale sparkling wine is one of the few natural sparkling wines made in Canada. To learn more about Bella’s 2014 Methode Ancestrale Sparkling Rosé visit http://bellawines.ca/our-bubbles/ancestrale/.

DETAILS

4320 Gulch Road, Site 15A Comp 2, Naramata, BC
Telephone: 778-996-1829
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.bellawines.ca | Twitter | Facebook

GALLERY

KEY PEOPLE

Owners: Jay Drysdale and Wendy Rose
Winemaker: Jay Drysdale

ABOUT BELLA WINES

Bella is a sparkling wine house capturing the natural beauty of British Columbia fruit in every bubble. Made in the traditional method, being bottle fermented, hand riddled and hand disgorged, Bella exclusively produces single vineyard, single varietal sparkling wines focusing on Chardonnay, a classic Champagne grape, and Gamay Noir, an under-appreciated BC grape. At Bella, the goal is to make world class sparkling wines that are perfectly dry and left natural with no dosage so you can taste an elegant, genuine expression of the vineyards we source from.

Owners Jay Drysdale and Wendy Rose are particularly interested in making sparkling wines because not only are bubbles extremely food friendly and fun to drink but they feel this wine style is tremendously well suited to British Columbia where the natural acidity found in the grapes is perfect for sparkling wine production. As avid promoters of sparkling wine Jay and Wendy hope one day BC bubbles will have the same notoriety as Spain’s cava, Italy’s prosecco and even France’s champagne. Join their cause and celebrate today with BC bubbles!

To learn more about our story visit www.bellawines.ca.