The Foreign Affair Winery Petit Verdot 2016

A winner at tastings, always!

Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc

$77.00

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Black Fruit, Preserved Fruit, Red Fruit, Floral, and Herbal, Sweet Spice and Woody

BODY: Full
DRYNESS: Neutral
ACIDITY: Medium +
TANNIN: Medium +
ALCOHOL (%): High (More than 14%)

Origin: Ontario, Canada

Grape Varietals:
Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc

Winemaking:

Grape Drying, Crushed, and Extended Skin Contact

Maturation: 13-18 Months Oak Barrels

Awards:

WESTERN FOOD PAIRING
Meat stews, grilled game meats & steaks, aged cheese, mushroom pasta

ASIAN FOOD PAIRING
Braised pig trotter, stewed tripe, Sichuan Shaokao

Description

The Foreign Affair Winery Petit Verdot 2016

Grape Varietals & Region: Petit Verdot 86%, Cabernet Franc 14%
from a mix of vineyards across Twenty-Mile Bench & their estate's vineyards.

Taste Profile: The nose is layered with aromas of ripe black cherry, blackberry preserves, fresh blueberry, licorice, and violet. The palate has intense flavours of cherry, blackberry, blueberry and dark plum. Great balance between the fruit flavours, acidity, tannin, and oak

Winemaking Process: The appassimento portion of Cabernet Franc (14%) and Petit Verdot (8%) had a drying period of 100 days before being pressed. The wine was aged in French and American oak barrels for 18 months

Shouldered & Powerful Reds

Powerful modern reds with the ability to age. They tend to be very intense, with ripe fruit, firm tannins & drinkability either young or cellared.

They often have notes of forest floor, blackcurrant, mint & eucalyptus

Passito Wines

Passito wines is the use of dried grapes to make wines. The main difference from late harvest is that these wines are often picked when ripe & dried after picking, and can be dried to different levels of moisture. A practice made popular by Italy, it has been adopted in various other regions