Summary: <a class="a2a_button_facebook a2a_counter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tastingroomradio.com%2Fapril-21st-2018%2F&linkname=April%2021st%2C%202018-%20Top%20Drop%20Vancouver%20%21" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tastingroomradio.com%2Fapril-21st-2018%2F&linkname=April%2021st%2C%202018-%20Top%20Drop%20Vancouver%20%21" title="Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tastingroomradio.com%2Fapril-21st-2018%2F&title=April%2021st%2C%202018-%20Top%20Drop%20Vancouver%20%21"></a><br> Full Natural Wines with Lock & Worth & Bella, Top Drop 2018 and The Okanagan Wine Initiative<br> <br> THE SHOW<br> <br> Matthew SherLOCK and Ross HackWORTH. Lock and Worth. <br> Jay Drysdale and Bella…<br> Want to get a sense of BC’s wine future? Matt and Jay will be a the very front, leading the movement.<br> Honest, single vineyard wines of time and place – priced for everyday consumption.<br> “We strongly believe that one should be able to drink high quality, single vineyard (non-commodity), small production wines that are priced reasonably from British Columbia. We plan to be around 20 years from now, not by becoming a large company but by creating a sustainable business within our community. For us part of that means making wines that always over deliver”<br> Sherlock and Hayworth farm organically and work the vineyards by hand whenever possible. They use native yeasts for fermentations, limited sulfur, and a gentle touch that avoids punch downs or pumping over or racking during élevage. The wines are bottled without fining or filtration.<br> Up the road at <a href="http://bellawines.ca/">Bella</a>, is a winery owned by Jay Drysdale and his wife, Wendy Rose. Bella only makes sparkling wines and only works with Chardonnay and Gamay Noir.<br> Bella ’s annual production is 2000 cases, split between a vineyard series and a natural series. Each wine in the vineyard series highlights a single grape, from a single vineyard, and single vintage. Dry-farmed and organic vineyards from Kelowna to Kamloops supply the fruit. The natural series uses the same vineyards, plus Bella’s four-acre estate vineyard.<br> <br> The vineyard series wines are made using the traditional Champagne method, with commercial yeasts and sugar added to the wine to trigger a second fermentation. Jay and Wendy make the natural series wines by pressing whole cluster grapes and allowing wild yeast fermentation to begin in neutral barrels.<br> No additives, allowing fermentation to finish in the bottle. This process is called méthode ancestral and Bella is the first winery in western Canada to use it.<br> <br> The natural process causes some of the bottles to be cloudy. As Jay has said “Yes, they’re cloudy. Get over it”<br> Here’s a quote from a go-to wine human Kurtis Kolt in the Georgia Straight<br> Natural wine. It’s wine made with minimal intervention. This means organic (and sometimes biodynamic) farming (without the use of pesticides and such), naturally occurring ferments with wild yeasts in the cellar, and winemaking without fining, filtration, or manipulation.<br> <br> Kurtis Kolt – Top Drop 2018<br> Wonderful and Unique two-day festival brings together international wineries, craft breweries, cideries, gastronomy & more. At Roundhouse Mews in Yaletown.<br> On May 17th and 18th 2018, Top Drop Vancouver returns, with a continued focus on sustainably-farmed, handcrafted wines offering a distinct sense of place, without heavy-handed winemaking trickery to get in t...
