Canada might not surpass California\u2019s Napa Valley, but the country can produce one that NApa will never be able to: ice wine.<\/p>\n
When life hands you frozen grapes, make ice wine. That\u2019s what Walter Hainle did after an early, unexpected frost hit his vineyard in British\u00a0Columbia\u2019s Okanagan Valley in 1972. Having lived in Germany and seen eiswein, or ice wine, made from grapes frozen on the vine, he picked the fruit and pressed it before it could thaw, yielding 40 liters (10.5 gallons) of ice wine. His approach was a relatively new one, as far as history goes. The ancient Romans probably made something like ice wine, but its secrets\u00a0were forgotten until the 1790s when growers in Germany lost a lot of grapes to early, severe winter. The dispirited farmers left the frozen fruit on the vine with the idea of picking it when in winter. But one winemaker\u00a0decided to try pressing the frozen grapes anyway\u2026 and discovered that although the process yielded very little wine, the result was was exceptionally sweet and\u00a0delicious.\u00a0when temperatures drop below -8 C (17F) or so, most of the\u00a0water in the grape freezes.\u00a0 But sugars and other dissolved\u00a0solids keep the last drops from freezing. So each grape yields only a little liquid \u2013 about\u00a05 percent the amount you\u2019d get if you pressed it unfrozen- but it contains all the grape\u2019s flavor and sugar in it. And because it is more concentrated, its taste is richer and sweeter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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