The GOODS from Bella Wines

Vancouver, BC | Bella Wines Ltd. is shocked to announce their 2015 grape harvest will begin Wednesday, August 12th – an unprecedented three weeks early. Normally the Okanagan Valley crush begins in early September for BC sparkling wines but due to an unseasonably warm spring the entire growing season shifted.

“If memory serves, this will be the earliest harvest we’ve had for BC sparkling wine production” says Jay Drysdale, winemaker and co-owner of Bella Wines. “The early ripening is producing quality fruit but with much lower acids and therefore the focus for BC sparkling wine producers will be to pick grapes on acid rather than sugar if we are to maintain the characteristics of BC bubbles. Given this, it’s not going to be an easy year as we will only have a small window to capture the fruits natural acid,” concludes Drysdale.

Due to the early harvest, Bella is unfortunately forced to adjust their tasting room hours to weekends only, from 12PM to 5PM Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and by appointment.

“We are honored and grateful for the overwhelming support and success of our tasting room’s first season but with this early harvest we have to adjust our hours today instead of after the Labour Day long weekend as we had originally planned.”

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.