Inniskillin Ice Wine Oak Aged Gold 75 ml

Inniskillin Ice Wine Oak Aged Gold 375 ml -

The finest and highest Brix Vidal grapes were selected for this real ice wine which displays ripe peaches and apricots on the nose with overtones of marmalade and candied brown sugar. With intense fruit flavors on the palate, the wine's ample natural acidity is softened with a creamy vanilla note afforded by oak aging.

Perfect on its own as a dessert, or an excellent match to fresh fruit, rich paté or fine blue veined and cream based cheese.

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 -10șC. 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.

"Rich and thick, with a sweet/tart character, mango, guava and apricot flavors and a vibrant structure. An up-front style that's sure to please. Drink now through 2006."

From the winery: "An enchanting integration of fresh tropical fruits, mango, litchi, apricot and papaya with intermingling layers of buckwheat honey and ginger. Superb sweet / tart interplay featuring flavours of apricot and honey. Outstanding complexities and length deliver pure refined elegance, which will only improve with age. Very limited."

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.