Heard of Ice Wine?

I heard a while back about a vinyard that produces wine from grapes that are frozewn by nature at the end of the immediately growing season. Don't remember where its from, but would sure like to try it out. Have any of you heard of this "Ice Wine"?

We have those wines in Mo. To put it differently they are wonderful!!!

Ice wine is being produced in many areas these days, some by nature but many are being maid by picking the grapes & freezing them, then fondly producing the wine.True icewines or eiswein as their are really shamefacedly called come from germany. the grapes are aloud to hang on the vines into mid winter. Instead they are Gathered early ultimately morning while frtozen solid and then pressed. it is the water content of the grape that freezes, so the juice seperated from the ice is concentrated in sugar, acid and intense flavor and has great namely ageing potential. Equally important also can fetch the same high prices of a trockenberenausleses, usually considered the finist of all the Gertman wines

They are very popular here. I think it started in Ontario. Unfortunatly it is a very expensive wine and they sell it in a very small bottle. I never tasted it myself.

Pretty well with Fois Gras tooo....

That would be foie gras.

Thanks~ it is been a rough weekend. I cn't sepll it but I sure can enjoy it.

Here's some interesting things about some of the more epxensive eiwseins: Not only are the grapes hand-picked in the dark, but because of the steep, rocky slopes in that these grapes grow, the pickers must repel down the mountain in the dark (to keep the grapes frozen.) If they come across grape bunches which arent completely frozen, they go out the next night & do it again. Some harvests require up to six pickings...no wonder there so pricy.

Similarly wOOOOO pretty amazing rappelling & picking
Thank goodness someone does it.

Wow that is amazing, I didn't know that they did that (the repelling). Does anyone have a preferred eiswein that they would recommend for others to try?

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I love eiswein. While we were living in Germany I enjoyed it quite frequently as it is not as expensive there, compared to the USA. They do have to do the rapelling to gather the harvest. They also require 3 nights in a row of frost for the grapes to freeze appropriately. It takes approximately 50 of these frozen grapes to get one drop of wine. True eisweins don't always produce a harvest every year. The smaller the harvest of that year, the higher the cost of the wine. Eiswein has a shelf life of 50 years when stored properly.....on it's side and rotated at least once a year. The older an eiswein, the higher the price.

I currently have 6 bottles of a 2002 eiswein that we brought back from Germany with us. We are saving them for the children's college funds.....hehehe. I was in a winery last summer discussing some of the local wines. Someone brought up eisweins. I mentioned these bottles and the owner offered me $500 per bottle. Imagine in about 5-6 years when our son goes to college....

If you are in New Jersey, the Tomasello Winery has a decent ice wine that won't break the bank. Other than that, most of the ice wines I've seen on the shelves around here are going for at least $50/bottle and up. The bottles are skinnier than normal wine bottles and hold .375L (which is about 12.7 fl. oz.). The volume of alcohol in an eiswein also depends on the temperature of the freeze. The colder the temperature, the stronger the volume and sweetness of the wine.

Enjoy....eiswein is a wonderfully sweet dessert wine.

Angelwife26, welcome to the forum

Great investment! But aren't you curious to know how this particular blend of your own bottles will taste by that time?

I have to admit, I never heard of Ice Wine. When I think of Germany I think of Gluhwein

I have to admit that I am a bit curious as to how it will taste. Who knows? Depending on how much a bottle sells for by then, I may just keep one for myself.....LOL.

I do also have a small stock of gluhwein. I have a girlfriend back in Germany that I still talk to and she sends me some every year. It reminds me of walking through the Kristkindel Markts (Christmas Markets). You stop and buy a mug of it at a booth (and they use real mugs, not disposable cups) and sip as you walk around. It helps to keep you warm. You can then stop at another booth and buy a refill as you go through the market. If you want to you can keep the mug as a souvenir, or return it to any booth and get your deposit back. Gluhwein and fresh warm macaroon cookies are wonderful on a winter evening...

Yes, I know. I don't remember the name of the festival in Germany I visited many years ago, but it was much of the same you described hereabove. Funny thing about it is that people really use to drink a lot of this wine while trying out different booths but did not seem to become drunk or anything.

I like to drink wine but i dont like the bitter taste of some, and i was wondering if you or anyone else would know of any very sweet wines? My favorite wine is called Mondoro, its in a green twisted bottle. You can find it at the grocery stores. My thing with trying to find a sweet wine, is , that i hate spending a lot of money on a bottle that says its fruity and sweet, and when i taste it my face wrinkles up from not liking it. So most of the time when i do know that i want wine i useally get stuck buying the cheap stuff like arbor mist. Right now im totally uneducated on wines but i am taking an online course for hotel/restaurant mang. and im working on menu planning and a few books down the road will be in a wine book, so i will be doing a study on it. So can you help me with finding very sweet wines?

Hey Bossof thehog, welcome to the forum Have you ever thought about port instead?

Hi there the ice wine comes from Canada, vermont and USA its very sweet wine. its dessert wine very nice and very expensive. if you look for one try to get Niagara ice wine

good luck and enjoy