German wine made by hand picking and pressing frozen grapes. These grapes are generally harvested long after the rest of the vineyards, sometimes as late as February. Much care is taken pressing these precious grapes, and the result is a very small amount of juice. Due to this, the wines are very expensive. As well, the concentrated nature of Eiswein produces wines that are very sweet, generally high-acid, and extremely ageworthy.
Sweet wine made from grapes exposed to frost
One of the six Pradikat levels for German wine. The wine is made from grapes that have been frozen on the vine. The style produced is sweet and intense.
This rank of quality for Austrian wine requires that the grapes be frozen at the time of harvesting and vinification. The must weight should be at least 25° KMW and the minimum alcohol content is 5%. Grape harvest is restricted to a maximum of 9,000 kg per hectare.
(ice-vine) The German word for "ice wine." This is an intense desert wine that has been made from very ripe grapes (without Botrytis) that were frozen on the vine. The frozen water is removed during pressing, leaving a very sweet must.
Ice wine. Eiswein has only been widely produced in Germany since the early 1960s and has only been a category of Qualitätswein mit Prädikat since 1982. Dallas Bartenders- Beverage Catering
(ICE-wine) - Just as it sounds in English, wine made from late-harvested grapes allowed to freeze on the vine, concentrating the sugars. Originated in Germany, also becoming a star attraction of the Ontario, Canada, wine region.
Wine made from grapes that were left on the vines until they are frozen. The wine is very sweet and high in acidity. Eiswein is an official German classification; similar wines from other regions are called icewine.
ICE-vine] Quite literally, ice wine. One of the rare Prädikat dessert wines, made from overripe grapes that have frozen solid on the vine. They are harvested quickly and pressed while still frozen, so that only concentrated grape juice is extracted. Most of the water stays in the press as ice, so the resulting wine is very concentrated, but with vibrant, racy acidity.
A sweet German wine, literally "ice wine," made from grapes that have frozen on the vine. The freezing concentrates the sugars in the grapes prior to harvesting. True German Eisweins are rare and costly.
one of my absolute favorite dessert wines! The grapes for this are not picked until after the first frost, resulting in odd pictures of bunches of grapes with a mound of snow on them. While Germany produces the best samples of this kind of wine in the world (it is considered the finest achievement by a winemaker), other spots are high enough in latitude that they don't have a monopoly. I've had Canadian ice wines and Washington State ice wines, and enjoyed them all.
German term (Icewine in English). Grapes are left on the vine until they freeze. Temperatures of -7C are required. The water content is removed as ice, and the resulting wine is sweet, concentrated and luscious.
The rare sweet German wine made from frozen grapes. In Canada, Ice Wine.
Quite sweet white wine made from grapes frozen on the vine.
German for ice wine, a dessert wine made from frozen grapes.