Canada should be proud of their ice wines, the Vidal Gold shows a crisp gold color with a clarity and distinction. It swirls around the glass and leaves a nice thick coating across the glass. The Inniskillin Vidal Gold brings a sweet scent with ripe pears and over-ripening apricots. To validate my point, I bit [...]
If you’re curious about ice wines this is the interview to stimulate your ear drums. We’re talking with Kevin Karl who breaks down the concepts of ice wine from history to regulations and reputations. What makes a good ice wine, what is the VQA and what regions are famous for ice wines. Kevin Karl can [...]
The Classic Ice Wine Martini is a twist to a standard vodka martini. This finishes our ice wine segment and gives you yet another ice wine cocktail alernative to those purchasing ice wines in the near future. Besides cocktails, those with a sweet tooth will definitely find joy in ice wine. Have you tried an [...]
The Ice Queen, a recipe using a more common ice wine from Canada: Vidal. The vidal grape is a hearty little hybrid that can struggle through the winters more easily which translates to a lower costing ice wine style. In a cocktail, it adds a unique sweetness with hints of apple and pear. In this [...]
The Vidal Grape is a hybrid grape designed in the 1930′s that turns out to have a great hardiness to colder climates and a bit of a resistance to certain molds. It also happens to be a grape variety that grows well in Canada and the northern United States which explains why we’re reviewing a [...]
The Inniskillin 2007 Cabernet Franc is a red ice wine, something of a rare breed of ice wine around my parts. It’s fairly easy to find many white ice wines but a red wine is definitely something neat and new. This Cabernet Franc pours much like a dark cranberry juice with a semi-translucent rich clean [...]
We’re tasting another ice wine cocktail but this time we’ve invented our own: Common Man’s Frozen Cherry. This is great for those experimenting with ice wines for the first time as it uses a full 1 oz. measure and keeps its structure throughout the cocktail. While this cocktail is super sweet, ice wine fans are [...]
Our first ice wine cocktail using Inniskillin 2007 Riesling known as the Tantric Kiss. This cocktail is a super sweet style cocktail using our new sponsor, Haamonii Smooth Shochu instead of vodka along with some pinapple and cranberry juice and a little bit of peach schnapps. You can buy Haamonii Shochu at D&M.com.
Today I was given a great opportunity to taste a 375ml bottle of Inniskillin 2007 Riesling Ice Wine (Niagara Peninsula VQA). I’m a huge fan of ice wines and this Canadian bottle has been tempting me to open it for almost a week and I couldn’t wait any longer. The 2007 Inniskillin Riesling pours a [...]
We’re still on our Ice Wine kick, this week we’re dipping into a 2003 Valckenberg Madonna Eiswein from the Rheinhessen region of Germany. This is the middle of the road Eiswein coming in at USD $34.00 to USD $40.00 and has familiar Ice Wine style traits with scents of peaches, appricots and potent grape. While [...]
