Review:
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."