Portfolio 2009

Just like a finely balanced stock portfolio, putting together a blended wine takes finesse and judgement so that the experience of the whole will be greater than the sum of the individual parts. Our flagship Portfolio wine has culminated into becoming a world-class Bordeaux blend by combining first-class grapes and highly reputable winemaking.

The 2009 vintage combines the five Bordeaux varietals: Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot to create a multi-layered complex wine. In any new vintage, blending must showcase the strongest varietals and in 2009, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc came from behind to be the darlings.

Double sorting tables first by clusters and then by berries allows us to put meticulous attention on using only the best grapes in our wines. Our oak program continues to be fine-tuned and this vintage includes the use of Puncheons, a barrel format twice as big as regular barrels, to explore different oak transfer rates. After 15 months of aging, barrels are individually tasted and selected to create balance in flavours, tannins and acidity in the final blend for Portfolio. This selected blend is then put back in barrel for an additional 4 months of aging.

The resulting wine has a nose of dark berries, tobacco, clove and hint of dark chocolate. The extra Cab Sauv brings a deeper earthiness with concentrated black currant and dried cherry flavours. Full-bodied, the structured backbone of fresh acidity and moderate tannins bodes well for aging. For a review of our wines, see our newswire.

Price: $42.00

Release date: October 18, 2011

Availability: Please use our online order form or contact the winery at 250.493.8466.

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GOLD Medal Winner, BC Wine Awards 2011

Top 25 Rated Wines of 2011 91-93 points, Icon Wines

Generous in texture, it has layers of flavour - plum, black currant, black liquorice - with ripe but firm tannins. This wine will cellar well."
92 points - John Schreiner