One of the World's Great Wines
Inniskillin Winery is located in Canada's Niagara Peninsula wine region in Niagara-on-the-Lake, just over an hour's drive from Toronto, Ontario's largest city, and a short distance from Niagara Falls. The Niagara Peninsula is bound by Lake Ontario on the north, Lake Erie on the south, and by the Niagara River on the east. The backbone of the Ontario 's wine region is the Niagara Escarpment, a ridge approximately 100-160 feet high, which acts as a barrier to form a unique mesoclimate suitable for growing premium wine grapes.Inniskillin VQA Icewine is an intensely concentrated dessert wine made from grapes naturally frozen on the vine. The process of repeated freezing and thawing during months of hang time until winter causes the grapes to dehydrate, altering their biochemical makeup while developing complexity and intensity. Inniskillin's Icewine is fermented slowly--sometimes for up to four months—and stops naturally at 10 to 12 percent alcohol. It is a brilliant golden color with aromas of lychee, apricot and pears with flavors of honey, mango and tropical fruits on the palate.
After the fall wine grape harvest, the grapes for Inniskillin Icewine are netted and left to hang on the vines. Then, in the dead of the Canadian winter when the temperatures drop to between -8 to -12 degrees Celsius (17 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit), the grapes are naturally frozen on the vines and ready for harvest.
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