Ice Wine
If you are looking for unusual wine gifts, then let us recommend our
ice wine gifts – a brand new range of wine gift ideas, which are perfect for friends and family who like the taste of sweet wines. However Ice Wines are not sickly sweet! They are sumptuously sweet!
Ice wine is the perfect wine gift, and it goes amazingly with desserts. The grapes used in
ice wine are harvested by hand from snow covered vineyards. Naturally frozen on the vine, grapes that are used to make Canadian Ice Wine for example are hand-picked when the temperature falls below -10 degrees Centigrade.
How are ice wines made?: Naturally frozen on the vine, the grapes are hand-picked when the temperature falls below -8 to -10 degrees celsius. The frozen grapes are then crushed immediately, which releases a tiny amount of concentrated sweet nectar which is slowly fermented over several months to create a delicious wine oozing tropical fruit flavours.
A Short History of Icewine: Ice wine, or Eiswein, originated in Franconia, Germany in 1794. The process was refined, and now ice wines are highly prized drinks that are created in Germany, Austria and Canada. Canadian Ice Wine is currently the most widely respected producer of ice wines. When the grapes are just right, they’re carefully picked by hand. Grapes in this condition have a very low yield - often an entire vine only makes a single bottle. That’s why
Ice Wine can be so expensive and is often sold in half-bottles only... but it’s worth it!
Ice wines, such as the Canadian
Ice Wine are best served chilled and are an elegant companion to desserts or fruit, or as an excellent accompaniment to well-aged blue cheeses or foie gras.
So, we have added a range of
Ice Wine to the site recently including Vidal Ice Wine, Sparkling Ice Wine, Cabernet Franc and Riesling Ice Wine all of which make fabulous and unique wine gifts!
Date posted: 26/08/2011
