Cornerstone Estate Winery only ships products within Canada.
Forté (Port style), 2014
Shipped and sold by Cornerstone Estate Winery
This is Ontario’s first VQA Port style wine. Hand picked and hand sorted from reduced crop as a late harvest. Perfected with a 50 year old recipe, this wine is aged for 2 years in used American oak barrels after the addition of Ontario brandy.
Appearance: Deep purple in colour.
Nose: Intense aromas of plum, dark cherry, cocoa, cassis, and black currant with hints of cigar box and sweet spices.
Palate: It feels like molten dark chocolate, followed with caramelized honey, surrounded with dark berry fruit with a hint of tobacco leaf.
Food pairings: Stilton cheese is the classic Port pairing, but dark chocolate, hazelnuts, almonds are great complementary foods too. Fancy the odd cigar? This is the perfect pairing with a good Cuban on a warm night outside by the fire. This Port-style wine will only get better with age, so don’t be shy putting away even until 2030.
Critic's Rating
2017 All Canadian Wine Championships, Silver
