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Botanical illustration of a blue-black grape cluster with leaf and tendril.
Botanical illustration of a blue-black grape cluster with leaf and tendril.

Cabernet Cortis

red · PIWI (fungus-resistant hybrid)

Origin
Freiburg, Germany, 1982 (Norbert Becker) (Cabernet Sauvignon × Solaris)
Where it grows
Poland
Typical winemaking
longer maceration; often aged in oak

The story

Cabernet Cortis was bred at Freiburg in 1982 by Norbert Becker, the breeder of Solaris, from Cabernet Sauvignon and Solaris itself. Its parentage reads like a bridge: a Bordeaux red on one side, Poland's most-planted white on the other. It is a PIWI red, and it is grown in Poland.

In the glass it leans towards its Cabernet parent: dark berries, a green-pepper note, firm tannin and more structure than most PIWI reds. Some growers give it time in oak.

Sensory profile

Where it grows

Open Cabernet Cortis in the atlas

Food pairing

Roast lamb. Venison stew. Aged Gouda.

In the Amber Road portfolio

None of our wines is made from Cabernet Cortis yet. See the shelf.