Leaning Post - Gamay 'The Natural', Wismer-Armbrust Vineyard, Twenty Mile Bench, Niagara (2020)

TASTING NOTES

Spice, leather, with intense blackberry, cherry and pepper. A super juicy and slightly earthy palate provides a full body and long finish. 

2020 was a great vintage for Gamay. Warm and sunny late summer and fall created optimal conditions for this wine. Picked on October 21st and placed in concrete fermenters. After a 3-day cold soak fermentation occurred spontaneously and was hand punched-down twice a day for 3 weeks. After fermentation, the wine was kept on skins for 5 days then gently pressed and settled in tank. It was then racked into a clay amphora and 3 neutral oak barrels and aged for 10 months. After aging it was racked out of barrel and held in tank for a one month before being bottled. No additions of any kind.

Leaning Post began as a virtual winery and now a home property in Winona, Ontario.

Ilya and Nadia are the brains and passion behind Leaning Post Wines. It started with a dream to take unique, interesting single vineyard blocks in Niagara and turn them into distinctive, terroir driven wines. 

Ilya has been a winemaker in the Niagara Region for the last 17 vintages working at Daniel Lenko Estate Winery, Foreign Affair and now at Leaning Post Wines. Ilya is also a consulting winemaker at the Good Earth Winery.