My Wine Canada Wine Club Feature: The Foreign Affair Winery
Still looking for a great present for the wine lover in your life? A Wine Club subscription is the perfect gift for them! This holiday season, we are celebrating with The Foreign Affair Winery and featuring a special selection of their notable wines in our December Wine Club packs. This Vineland Station gem sits on forty acres of vines and is known for their bold and flavourful red blends. Keep reading to see which tantalizing wines you can gift to a loved one... or yourself.
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Founders, Len and Marisa Crispino, were living as expats in Italy when they discovered Amarone wines. A rich and expressive wine style from the Veneto region of northeastern Italy, the wine is made using the appassimento process where grapes are dried for months before pressing. The duo were so inspired by the wines that they brought their learnings back with them to Ontario and established The Foreign Affair Winery. Since their first vintage in 2004, the Crispinos have become trailblazers of appassimento winemaking in Canada. They produce a high-quality selection of rich reds and elegant whites with each bottle being touched by the appassimento process in some way.
Take a peek at a few of the extraordinary wines that are included in our December Wine Club boxes.
This vibrant and beautifully-structured white offers an elegant mix of lemon, orange, green plum, and herbaceous notes. It pairs well with rosemary and sun-dried tomato focaccia or pan-fried garlic calamari.
This expressive riesling has enticing notes of honeyed grapefruit, white peach, green apple, and lemon-lime on the palate with a bright and lingering finish. A wonderful partner with smoked salmon or potato gratin and spicy Thai beef salad.
This medium-bodied merlot has supple tannins with well-integrated oak. A plum and oak spice bouquet leads into red cherry, blackberry, thyme, and black pepper on the palate. Rated 90 points, try it with beef wellington or gnocchi tossed with asparagus, edamame, and parmesan.
A lively Bordeaux-style blend of merlot, cabernet sauvignon, and cabernet franc. Aromas of violets, cassis, and pepper spice are followed by flavours of rhubarb, plum, black tea, and dark chocolate. Rated 91 points by Tony Aspler. A food-friendly wine, enjoy it with lamb chops with rosemary gravy or fried halloumi cheese with honey.
Join the Wine Club by December 15th to enjoy these superb Niagara wines.
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