A commuting pair of Hilbert space operators having the closed symmetrized bidisc \( \Gamma =\{(z_1+z_2, z_1z_2) \ : \ |z_1| \le 1, |z_2| \le 1\} \) as a spectral set is called a \(\Gamma \) -contraction. A \(\Gamma \) -unitary is a commuting pair of normal operators with its Taylor joint spectrum inside the distinguished boundary \(b\Gamma \) of \(\Gamma \) and a \(\Gamma \) -isometry is the restriction of a \(\Gamma \) -unitary to a joint invariant subspace of its components. Also, a pure \(\Gamma \) -contraction is a \(\Gamma \) -contraction (S, P) for which P is a pure contraction, i.e., \(P^{*n} \rightarrow 0\) strongly as \(n \rightarrow \infty \) . A \(\Gamma \) -contraction (S, P) is called \(\Gamma \) -distinguished if (S, P) is annihilated by a polynomial \(q \in \mathbb {C}[z_1,z_2]\) whose zero set Z(q) defines a distinguished variety in the symmetrized bidisc \(\mathbb {G}_2\) . There is a Schaffer-type minimal \(\Gamma \) -isometric dilation of a \(\Gamma \) -contraction (S, P) in the literature. In this article, we study when such a minimal \(\Gamma \) -isometric dilation is \(\Gamma \) -distinguished provided that (S, P) is a \(\Gamma \) -distinguished \(\Gamma \) -contraction. We show that a pure \(\Gamma \) -isometry (T, V) with defect space \(\dim \mathscr {D}_{V^*}< \infty \) , is \(\Gamma \) -distinguished if and only if the fundamental operator of \((T^*,V^*)\) has spectral radius less than 1. Further, it is proved that a \(\Gamma \) -contraction acting on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space dilates to a \(\Gamma \) -distinguished \(\Gamma \) -isometry if its fundamental operator has numerical radius less than 1. We also provide sufficient conditions for a pure \(\Gamma \) -contraction to be \(\Gamma \) -distinguished. Wold decomposition splits an isometry into two orthogonal parts of which one is a unitary and the other is a completely non-unitary contraction. In this direction, we find a few decomposition results for the \(\Gamma \) -distinguished \(\Gamma \) -unitaries and \(\Gamma \) -distinguished pure \(\Gamma \) -isometries.