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Feature Article
It’s hard to imagine that something coming from such frigid darkness can illuminate with such soothing sweetness
Ontario (Provincial Appellation)
Ontario Icewine: out of frosty northern winters comes one of the world’s most prized wines
The harvesting of Icewine is truly an act of masochism for the pickers because it’s usually done in the early morning hours long before the sun has risen. From personal experience, the wind whipping across a vineyard at those temperatures can make you feel like Scott of the Antarctic.
by
Tony Aspler
January 5, 2006
Here’s a ‘Heritage Moment’ for you. June 24th, 1991. The place: VinExpo in Bordeaux. The occasion: the announcement that Inniskillin had won the Grand Prix d’honneur for its Vidal Icewine 1989. This prestigious award alerted the world that Ontario actually grew wine worth drinking. I was there and I saw the feeding frenzy that resulted as winemakers from Europe and established New World regions jostled each other at the Inniskillin booth to taste Ontario’s ‘gift of winter.’
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