Barry Family Cellars, Léon Millot Pet Gnat Finger Lakes 2021

Barry Family Cellars was founded in 2011 by Ken and Ian Barry in Burdett, New York, near Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes Region. Ian worked at wineries in the Hudson Valley, Oregon and Washington, and makes the Barry Family wines with techniques he personally enjoys, eschewing intervention in favor of more minimalist techniques. 

The Pet Gnat wines got their inspiration from Ian’s son Declan. He overheard his Dad discussing making a pet-nat with some winemaking friends, and thought they were getting a new pet gnat. They joked about how they’d have to have a leash for the new pet. Declan’s drawing, spruced up by Ian’s father Ken, a lifelong artist, is the art work featured on the label. 

VARIETAL: Leon Millot (an old red variety of hybrid grape from Alsace)

Grown sustainably at the high elevation Ball Vineyard. Handpicked and whole cluster pressed. Allowed to ferment with native yeast and finished in the bottle. Unfined, unfiltered, undisgorged. 

NATURAL. SUSTAINABLE.  LOW SULFITE. VEGAN. MINIMAL INTERVENTION.