The Riesling grapes typically used for ice wine are hand-picked at about 3 a.m.
What I also learned (very confidentially) is that there will be little if any ice wine for sale this year because the mild winter was not helpful.
The hectare that yields 6, 000 liters of classic wine only provides a few hundred liters of ice wine as about an entire vine is required for a single bottle.
No surprise: The ice wine is also quite tasty.
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Two decades ago, a couple of Canadian vineyards began producing ice wine, a German invention in which frost-bitten grapes are left on the vine until temperatures drop to as low as minus 13 degrees Celsius.
Five years ago he noticed that a company called Nanjing Fenshilan Ice Wine Co. had popped up, selling what it maintains is Vineland Estates icewine, complete with photos of Schmidt's winery adorning its claim that it was the sole agent of Vineland in the Asia-Pacific region.
Germany is the traditional home of Eiswein but producers in Canada, such as Inniskillin, Jackson-Triggs and Mission Hill, have created an important export market and the country now makes more ice-wine than any other nation in the world.
Smartly attired executives from start-ups such as SolFocus, Solaicx and Ice Energy sipped wine and munched on gourmet appetizers, including mini crab tacos and Guinness ginger cake, while they talked shop.
For beach picnics, Hafida fills hampers with cold lobster and chermoula mayonnaise, along with lots of ice-cold white wine.
Spanning the weekends before and after Feb. 29, the celebration will include an ice hockey game, wine tasting, craft show, concert and carnival, and a parade, party and reception on leap day.
If you prefer your white wine chilled, there are various decanters that will fit in a fridge, or you can buy an ice-pocket decanter, which has a small built-in capsule for ice that will help keep your wine cool.
Both geeks and gourmands can enjoy their downtime at one of the multiple restaurants, the ice cream bar or the wine tasting lounge.
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Beer and wine are confined to the Porch premises, but the ice lollies, like the purple asters and radiant coneflowers blooming in the gravel track-beds, are enjoyed everywhere.
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