Ice wine is one of the wine treasures of the world. Some people pretend to hate it. It has double the sweetness of Coca Cola. Once you taste it, it will be hard not to love this amazing wine. It was created in 1794 by German people. Frozen grapes are essential to the ice wine recipe.
Key Takeaways:
- The secret to ice wine is processing frozen grapes at around 20 ºF (-7º C). The frozen grapes are brought into the winery where they are transferred–thousands of hard, icy marbles–into a grape crusher and then into a grape press.
- Riesling, Grüner Veltliner, Chenin Blanc, and Vidal Blanc. Cabernet Franc ice wines are rare, with a brilliant orange-ruby hue, but can be found with relative ease from Ontario, Canada.
- True ice wine requires a cold climate where grapes are harvested frozen on the vine.
“The secret to ice wine is processing frozen grapes at around 20 ºF (-7º C). The frozen grapes are brought into the winery where they are transferred–thousands of hard, icy marbles–into a grape crusher and then into a grape press.”
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