Ice Wine refresher5 Aug 2019 20:18
All this talk of icewine made me thirsty so thought I would share a link to what the Canadians (especially) produce. It is not cheap though, typically £40-50 for a 37.5cl bottle. Sorry off topic, but thought I would indulge whilst we are waiting for further news.
"Icewine is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing for a more concentrated grape juice to develop. The grapes' must is pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine. With ice wines, the freezing happens before the fermentation, not afterwards. Unlike the grapes from which other dessert wines are made, such as Sauternes, Tokaji, or Trockenbeerenauslese, ice wine grapes should not be affected by Botrytis cinerea or noble rot, at least not to any great degree. "