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Just a correction on the Ice Wine. They don't chill the wine they pick the grapes on a cold morning when they have become frozen completely. The wine is then pressed from those grapes.

This process increases the sugar of the grape but greatly reduces the juice content you would normally get, hence the greater expense for this type of wine.

Ice wine is meant as a dessert wine and way too sweet for my liking.




Yes, I checked it out on the net, and was also told that its is harvested at the end of the season as winter takes hold and that the grapes have to be picked frozen from the vine at about -8 deg C any warmer and they are not frozen, any colder and they are to hard to press and can indeed break the press. so if you leave the grapes on the vine to long and winter takes a hold the entire years crop can be lost. It can also be manufactured artificaly by freezing grapes, but I think it cant be called Ice Wine then and is knowen as Ice box wine or some other similarity.

Gina, sounds like you would like it.