Nicky Snicky 2021, natural wine bottle at Primal Wine
Bichi natural wine producer in the vineyard, Tecate, Baja California, Mexico
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Bichi Nicky Snicky 2021

$35.00
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Tasting notes

Bichi Nicky Snicky is a unique, one-time release. It is made from the historic Rosa del Peru grape variety. The wine was made with no additions, undergoing spontaneous fermentation with native yeast before being bottled without fining or filtration. More info

  • Organic
  • Unfiltered
  • Low Sulfites
BodyFruitTanninAcidity
Wild StrawberryPomegranateEarthWhite Pepper
  • Style: A one-off natural wine that will never be made again.
  • Grapes & Terroir: Made from Rosa del Peru grapes, first introduced to the New World in 1520.
  • Cellar: No additions. Fermented spontaneously with native yeast, bottled unfined and unfiltered.
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West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

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If you'd like to receive a refund for a package that was returned to us after FedEx made three delivery attempts, we can do that but we must keep a $20 refund fee; FedEx charges us a lot of money for returns, unfortunately, I can't stress this enough.

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Heat/Frost damage

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2. As soon as your order ships from the warehouse, usually within 2-3 business days, this applies to all shipping rates, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with your tracking information. 2DAY shipping refers to shipping time; we still need 2-3 business days to prepare an order. We need to pick and pack, QA, add printed collateral, and palletize the orders.

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**If delivery is attempted 3 times without success, or if you fail to retrieve your package from the carrier depot by the stated deadline, the shipping fee will not be refunded to the customer.

Returns Policy

If you are not satisfied with your purchase, please contact us at (424) 414-2040 or via e-mail at hello@primalwine.com between 9 am and 5 pm Pacific Standard Time, Monday through Sunday, we would like to understand and try to solve your concerns. We can offer refunds only as store credit.

Producer profile

Bichi

Noel Téllez and the Téllez family founded Bichi in 2014 after moving from Sonora to Baja California. From 2014 through 2017, Noel worked with Chilean winemaker Louis-Antoine Luyt while developing wines from older vineyards in the area. Noel later worked with Beaujolais-trained winemaker Yann Rohel and leads Bichi's day-to-day operations. The estate is based in Tecate and farms approximately 10 hectares of owned vineyards. Bichi also works with organic growers in Tecate and around San Antonio de las Minas.

Bichi farms its owned Tecate vineyards biodynamically and describes its vineyard network as organic and dry-farmed. Approximately 10 hectares are estate-owned, with most vines own-rooted and planted before phylloxera. Nicky Snicky comes from San Lorenzo, Tecate, where Rosa del Perú vines are estimated at 105 years old and planted at 750 metres. The reported soils are sand and loam. Bichi's broader plantings include Misión, Tempranillo, Palomino, Chenin Blanc, Rosa del Perú, Dolcetto, and other varieties.

At estate level, grapes are hand-destemmed and gently trodden by foot. Fermentations begin spontaneously with native yeasts and take place in locally made concrete amphorae, concrete vats, and flex tanks. Bichi uses neutral stainless-steel vats, older barrels, and tinajas for aging, depending on the cuvée. The estate's importer describes sulfur use as limited to approximately 10 parts per million at bottling when needed, while several wines are bottled without added sulfur, fining, or filtration.

Wine region

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Baja California's wine country lies in the northwestern Mexican state between the Pacific Ocean and the interior ranges of the peninsula. Principal wine areas include Tecate, Valle de Guadalupe, San Antonio de las Minas, Valle de la Grulla, San Vicente, Santo Tomás, and Ojos Negros. Many vineyards sit within roughly 18 to 25 kilometres of the Pacific, where marine air and coastal fog moderate the dry climate. The region has winter rainfall and dry, warm summers. Valley soils include sand, clay, loam, gravel, limestone, and granite-derived material, while reported vineyard elevations range from approximately 300 metres in parts of Valle de Guadalupe to an overall regional average near 300 metres.

Baja California does not operate through a DOC, DOCG, or AOC system with prescribed regional blends, Riserva categories, Grand Cru sites, or Gran Selezione tiers. Mexican labeling standard NOM-199-SCFI-2017 defines vino de origen as wine made from at least 85% grapes from the named region, and vino varietal as wine containing at least 75% of the declared variety. Vino mexicano requires 100% Mexican grapes with fermentation and bottling in Mexico. The principal subregions are organized around Tecate and the Ensenada valleys, with Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo, Nebbiolo, Grenache, Misión, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, and Chenin Blanc among the planted varieties. Bichi Nicky Snicky sits within the Tecate sector and is labeled as a red wine from Baja California.

Frequently asked question

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

Signature on delivery is mandatory for wine deliveries. Please make sure someone is at the shipping address to sign for the package.

If applicable, please consider delivering the package to a business address to ensure someone is available to sign for the package.

We also have the option of delivering the package to a Carrier's store for pickup. Please reach out to us to coordinate.

Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

1) Reship the package right away: due to the very high cost of shipping and returns, we must charge a re-shipping fee to be determined based on package size and shipping destination.

2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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