Sharing my discoveries...
by Brigitte Perreault
ICE WINE:
A DESSERT WINE
There are indications that frozen grapes were used to make wine in Roman times.
Ice wine (or icewine; German Eiswein) is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape must to be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine. With ice wines, the freezing happens before the fermentation, not afterwards.
A sweet wine.
Enjoy!
Perreault Magazine / March 2014 85