[Sca-cooks] Eiswein

[Elaine Koogler]

We were gifted with a bottle of the "ice wine" at Christmas by a good 
friend who purchased it locally in MD. The information on the bottle 
states that it was made in Canada...and I seem to remember hearing about 
it being made there on some TV show...don't remember which one.

Kiri

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> This is the first time I've heard it mentioned that there might be two 
> types of Eiswein. I assume the spatlese variety is sweeter because it 
> has been on the vine longer? Why would you have the earlier type? Just 
> an early freeze and the growers are making the best of what happened?
>
> Does the freezing itself actually affect things? Or is it just a 
> matter of the juice being sweeter because the grapes have been growing 
> longer? I assume that the freezing does play a role somehow, since 
> otherwise there would be no difference between the spatlese and 
> regularly picked grapes. Or is this just a marketing ploy? Is there 
> something special that happens when the grapes freeze on the vines 
> versus being picked and then frozen, mechanically or otherwise?
>
> "Eiswein" sounds German. Are there non-German wines made with frozen 
> grapes?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan

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