Inniskillin Ice Wine Vidal Pearl 375 ml

Inniskillin Ice Wine Vidal Pearl -

The grape is "Vidal" and the flavors are exquisite. The nobility of this vintage shines with an alluring assortment of fresh nectarine, papaya, litchi, tangerine and orange blossoms. These exquisite fruit flavors, combined with invigorating acidity offer multi-layers of balanced pleasure. Very limited.

This Icewine was made from hand harvested Vidal grapes, naturally frozen on the vine. The removal of ice crystals, separated from frozen grapes during pressing, concentrates the juice into delicate nectar that is expertly guided through fermentation to achieve the rich and alluring specialty known as Icewine.

Food Pairing Suggestions: Fruit based desserts - Tropical, stone, citrus, pear, and apple.
Foie Gras - pan seared or terrine, and spiced Asian cuisine.
Cheeses - Rich blue veined & selected cream based - Roquefort, Saga, Cambonzola, blue ermite, le ciel de charlevoix, bleu de la moutonniere, bleubry, cayer, cabrales, devon cream, torta and gorgonzola.

How Ice Wine is Made

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.