Vin de Garage
The term Vin de Garage originated in France
in the mid-1980s for limited production wines of exceptionally
high quality. And that is exactly what Alejandro and his team
of professional vintners can do for Canadians, offering an entirely
new winemaking experience on their own premises.
Vin de Garage: premium small-batch wines
offered in home wineries, restaurants and private clubs, and
at commercial winemaking centres
Portofino’s experts will travel to your home and provide
all of the equipment and expertise needed, at no charge, to
produce wines that are elegant, rich, and powerful.
This is a unique service not available anywhere else in Canada.
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VIN DE GARAGE
The Wine Centre
When you visit our Wine Centre you can
order from a selection of famous appellations including Merlot,
Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Shiraz, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay
or you can ask to have a custom wine made to suite to your own
particular taste and budget.
At Portofino, we understand that the best wines begin on the
land and end in a glass. Our wines begin in Chile’s Maipo
Valley and Argentina’s Tupungato Valley, two of the best
grape-growing areas in the world. We import top-quality frozen
red grapes and fresh juices directly from vineyards in these
famous regions.
We also bring in fresh grapes from California’s Sonoma
and Central Valleys. Our wine experts travel to these areas
every year to inspect and select the best grapes and juices
available.
The harvested fruit and juices are transported in specially
refrigerated trucks to our state-of-the-art facility in Toronto
where they are gently coaxed into a wide selection of quality
wines in many categories to suite a wide variety of tastes.
For customers with a taste for dessert wines,
we offer ice wine juices from Niagara vineyards. They are available
only in December and January after a heavy frost of at least
two days.
Once an order is placed, there are a number of storage and aging
options available. We offer wine bulk storage for up to 90 days
after your order has been placed and the choice of either French
or American barrel aging. (Bulk storage up to 90 days are included
with the order, but there is a charge for extended storage in
tanks as well as barrel aging).
‘A visit to our Wine Centre will provide
you with a superior product and an enjoyable experience.’
Another important service we provide is
cold stabilization – a process to prevent sediment collecting
in the bottle.
A visit to our Wine Centre will provide you with a superior
product and an enjoyable experience.
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OUR CELLAR
Hospitality Trade
Portofino offers a special service to restauranteurs
and private clubs to help generate new profits through an unusual
wine-tax-sheltered opportunity. Our vintners can create an on-site
winery to produce low-volume wines of exceptional character
and quality.
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