SIZE
6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $31.80 EACH
PRODUCER
Bachelder
VINTAGE
2021
COLOUR
red
SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY
Niagara, Ontario, canada
GRAPE
gamay
Dark chocolate nose; luscious blackberry pie mid-palate. This wine, vinified with 33% whole grape clusters, is the more closed (a ‘low-talker’ Fox!?), and the more structured of all our Gamay Noir ‘Crus.’ Incredible presence and verve: the ‘Bench’ speaks loudly here with more flinty dark fruit than red, and a deep umami mouthfeel – Iron? Rust? A curl of musky funk and deep, mixed forest-berry black fruit in the mouth; it possesses a finish that is slightly longer, with a more iron-like tannic, raw minerality.
We find the use of 33% whole cluster speaks a little more clearly to us about its gravelly, iron-tinged magnesium oxide soil origins, and since the taste of the land is what we are all about, we are so happy to work with Wismer-Foxcroft – not least for the contrast it underlines between the Vineland Bench and the beautiful, more lush propositions coming out of the Niagara-on-the-Lake terroir parcels.
