Wine Profile

The 2023 vintage offers an inviting mix of red and black fruit wrapped in aromatic floral notes. You can expect cassis, cherry and sweet herbs. The palate is juicy with well-integrated tannins and offers notes of baked rhubarb and blackberry with wet earth and cranberry compote. The wine has fine tannins and a textural mouthfeel, making this quite drinkable already, though this will cellar nicely. Drink from 2026-2035.

Just like a finely balance 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 Portfolio is a wine that marries the art and science of winemaking with a blend of Bordeaux varietals. For the past decade, Portfolio has routinely won top accolades from wine competitions and wine critics alike: a proven chart-topper.

winemaking Notes

The 2023 vintage combines the five classic varietals: 49% Merlot, 31% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc, 6% Malbec, and 3% Petit Verdot to create a multilayered, complex wine.

Using double sorting tables to sort grapes first by cluster and then by berry allows us to put meticulous attention on using only the best grapes in our wines. The whole berry fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks. Portfolio sees 21 months in French oak barrels with 40% new French oak and 60% second fill French oak.

vintage Notes

Although the Okanagan Valley had a slight delay to the growing season with cooler than average weather
through April and May, the weather very quickly changed to a long, extended period of hot, dry days through the
balance of the summer. We saw bud break at our Naramata vineyard at the beginning of May and kicked
off our harvest by picking the first fruit on August 23rd for our traditional method sparkling wine. This was a full
month earlier than vintage 2022, which was a very late and more moderate summer. Most of our varieties
ripened a week or two earlier than normal due to the warm weather and lower yields. The low yields also
brought good concentration to the flavours and ripe tannins for our Bordeaux-styled reds.

vineyards

Sourced from Eventus, Bearcub, NKMIP and from the Perfect Hedge Vineyard in Osoyoos.