Inniskillin Ice Wine Cabernet Franc 375 ml
Inniskillin Ice Wine Cabernet Franc 375 ml -
Rare red wine ice wine - recommended
"A rare red wine ice, both intensely aromatic and flavorful. Strawberry, rhubarb and spiced apple plus hints of cranberry. Delicious sweetness is balances by smooth acidity, creating a truly vibrant and invigorating experience!
Inniskillin Icewine, recognized as one of the world's great wines, is a gift from winter to wine lovers. Harvested at the pinnacle of Canada's crisp winter, the grapes are naturally frozen on the vine and picked when the temperature drops below -10ºC. Only a few drops of luscious nectar can be extracted from each bunch, which is expertly guided through fermentation to achieve the rich and alluring specialty known as Icewine.
VINIFICATION
The harvest occurs at the pinnacle of Canada's crisp winter. Exceptional grapes, naturally frozen on the vine, are delicately handpicked and carefully pressed throughout the night. Grapes, picked frozen solid from the vines, were manually loaded into the presses without de-stemming or crushing, and were pressed at an ambient temperature of -10?C or colder. This technique yields only a fraction of the normal yield (approximately 10 - 20%) as most of the natural water portion of the juice remains in the press in the form of ice crystals. During the pressing the water in the grapes remains frozen as ice crystals, and is easily extracted from the juice. What remains are a few precious drops of silky sweet unadulterated liquid. Once guided through our arduous fermentation, the resulting wine can only be hailed as the Nectar of the Gods.
TASTING NOTES
This wine is both intensely aromatic and varietally distinct, from an incredible Icewine vintage. Portraying aromas of herbs, eucalyptus, strawberry, baked rhubarb and spiced apple. Rich echoing flavors of cranberry, apple and strawberry are enlightened by a refreshed acidity, creating a truly vibrant and invigorating experience!
Food Pairing Suggestions: Fruit based desserts - Stone, red, pear, and apple. Spiced desserts, sweet / spicy sauces and chutneys, bitter/ sweet chocolate, foie gras - pan seared or terrine, and spiced asian cuisine. Cheeses - Rich blue veined & selected cream based i.e. Roquefort, saga, cambonzola, blue ermite, le ciel de charlevoix, bleu de la moutonniere, bleubry cayer, cabrales, torta and gorgonzola. Avoid extremely sweet desserts, as they will diminish all the wonderful enlightening natural acidity in Icewine and create a cloying unpleasant effect on your palate.
Serving Temperature: 5 - 8?C.
