1 comments Latest by sydney backpackers 01/16/10 08:13:34 EST
That's how a lot of folks refer to Niagara Icewines. This stuff is precious. Okay, you say what is it?
Well, when it gets cold...really cold...like it is now Icewine harvesting begins in Niagara. Icewines are created from frozen cluster of grapes(several varities are used) that have been allowed to stay on the vines.Once the temperatures drop below minus eight degrees celius for a sustained period of time pickers arrive(usually in the middle of the night) to harvest these grapes. These grapes are immediately pressed in the extreme cold to extract the luscious nectar.In this process the water content in each grape remains frozen in crystals,leaving only a few droplets of concentrated,intense liquid.Icewines yields are amere 10-15% of an average table wine harvest. Slowly fermented over a few months this nectar eventually becomes Icewines.
