Ice wine, late harvest wines, dessert wines
Ice wines are made by a surprising number
of Oregon and Washington wineries. TRUE ice wines, those mind boggling
elixirs of ambrosia, are almost entirely produced in North America
by a few wineries in British Columbia. We offer both types.
The Pacific Northwest produces some of the most highly rated sweet
wines in the world. Ice wines from British Columbia's Inniskillin and Jackson Triggs
wineries win top ratings in
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Covey Run Reserve Semillon Ice Wine 06- intense aromas of pineapple, citrus and vanilla, a luscious mouth feel, and rich, concentrated flavors whose sweetness is balanced by crisp acidity.
Ice wine is one of the worlds rarest dessert wines. ...read more
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Apolloni Viognier "Dolce Vino" 07 - A delicious and aromatic mouthful. Concentrated flavors and aromas capture the essence of the sunny growing season. Made from frozen Viognier, this dessert wine brings out the floral apricot, pear and spice fla...read more
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Remy Wines Beneficio Port-Style Dessert Wine - beautiful bottle, beautiful wine - juicy & sweet red raspberry with the tiniest hint of pepper and a refreshing finish, this port-style Barbera based dessert wine was the crowd favorite at a recent Re...read more
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Paradise Ranch Chardonnay Ice Wine 04 -
"Crisp flavors of apple, pear & apricot with subtle notes of caramel." - Best Wine in North & Latin America - Vino Challenge 2008 ...read more
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Inniskillin Ice Wine Vidal Oak Aged Gold: Wine Spectator rating 90 points: "Rich and thick, with a sweet/tart character, mango, guava and apricot flavors and a vibrant structure. An up-front style that's sure to please. Drink now...read more
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Andrew Rich Gewurztraminer Ice Wine 07 375ml - Andrew says: "Seduction in a bottle. Give in. You know you want to. Just give in."
"I hadn't tasted this wine much since it was bottled last spring, so when I brought a sip of it to my nos...read more
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One bottle each of three highly sought after Oregon Ice and Dessert wines.
The Pacific Northwest is one of the few sources for Ice Wine, and its late harvest and dessert wines are delicious. They make lovely gifts- serve them on special occas...read more
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Paradise Ranch Pinot noir Ice Wine - "Cherry aromas with touches of cranberry, cinnamon and pecans, with a pleasing balance of roasted brown sugar and caramelized fruit." - Highly Recommended - Northwest Palate Magazine...read more
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Paradise Ranch Riesling Ice Wine - "Aromas of passionfruit and candied ginger lead to flavours of tangerine, lime and marmalade." ...read more
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Kiona Ice Wine Chenin Blanc 06/07 375 ml - Kiona Ice Wine 07 received 93 points from Wine Advocate (Parker) 7/08. They said: "The 2007 Ice Wine is a Chenin Blanc-Riesling blend with 20% residual sugar. The aromatics are quite ...read more
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J. Albin Vin Glace 07 is a dessert wine made from Pinot noir. It has an undeniably sweet cherry focus that would work with any cherry-based dessert, or just as a sipper after dinner. ...read more
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Simply exquisite, a small bottle lessens the sticker shock, a wonderful size bottle for gift giving, for taste testing the marvel of nature that is British Columbia Ice Wine. The wines has rich tropical aromas of papaya, mango and apricot. Bold fruit...read more
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Kittling Ridge's Infusion Ice Wine is a blend of Kittling Ridge's VIdal Ice wine with seven year barrel aged brandy, lowering the sweetness and introducing the subtle oak flavors of brandy without overwhelming the delicate ice wine.
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Duck Pond Semillon Ice wine is introduced by a bouquet of honeyed almonds. The fruit shows up both bright and rich like caramelized pears and sweet, ripe apricots. Silky throughout the palate, the wine leaves behind a pleasant crisp - fruit finish. ...read more
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Inniskillin Ice Wine Vidal 06 - The grape is "Vidal" and the flavors are exquisite. The nobility of this vintage shines with an alluring assortment of fresh nectarine, papaya, litchi, tangerine and orange blossoms. These exquisite fruit flavours, ...read more
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Capitello Wines Dolcino Dessert Wine 08 - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Made by Ray Walsh, who was winemaker at King Estate from 1992 to 2005, this is a spectacular dessert wine, rich yet well balanced, with lovely fresh crisp acidity o...read more
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Inniskillin Ice Wine Riesling 07 is characterized by intense honey, peach and apricot aromas. The palate displays concentrated rich peach honey flavours with a crisp acidity.
Wine Spectator rating 93 points for 2002 vintage: "Racy and inten...read more
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The King Estate Vin Glace Ice Wine is a crowdpleasing apricot and peach flavored "stickie" with nice citrus hints that refresh....read more
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Paradise Ranch Late Harvest Pinot Blanc 06 - An ice wine in all but name, this delectably rich dessert wine is full of scents of peach, melon, and pear, and flavors of fruit, toasted nuts, and a nice crisp acidity that finishes fresh and sweet in ...read more
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Paradise Ranch Late Harvest Merlot - Although not called an Ice Wine, this is not a typical "Late harvest". It is intense and rich as an ice wine, just does not fit the strict requirement of having been picked, frozen, off the vine. Quite an exper...read more
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Inniskillin Ice Wine Vidal Oak Aged Gold: Wine Spectator rating 90 points: "Rich and thick, with a sweet/tart character, mango, guava and apricot flavors and a vibrant structure. An up-front style that's sure to please. Drink now...read more
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDFrom the winery: "This wine is both intensely aromatic and varietally distinct, from an incredible Icewine vintage. Portraying aromas of herbs, eucalyptus, strawberry, baked rhubarb and spiced apple. Rich echoing flavors of c...read more
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Two bottles each of three highly sought after Oregon Ice and Dessert wines.
The Pacific Northwest is one of the few sources for Ice Wine, and its late harvest and dessert wines are delicious. They make lovely gifts- serve them on special occa...read more
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The Brooks Winery Tethys Late Harvest Riesling Dessert Wine has aromas of honeysuckle, rose petals, crisp apples and tangerines. A sweet and thick coating on the palate aligns itself with good balanced acidity.
Flavors of orange blossoms, hon...read more
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An outstanding value from a Ribbon Ridge Estate vineyard, located in one of Oregon's prime growing areas. This unique Early Muscat wine is fortified with Early Muscat Grappa made from the grape skins and distilled by House Spirits. Two years in de...read more
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Hyatt Vineyards Late Harvest Riesling
Price: $15.45
$13.90 - Any 12 or more bottles
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Hyatt Late Harvest White Riesling 07 - a sweet, fresh, fruity wine with a clean, tangy finish. Aromas and flavors of dried apricot, tangerine, and powdered sugar with a hint of cocoa and mint on the finish. The wine has excellent sugar to acid bal...read more
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Harris Bridge Pinot Noir "O" 2003
Price: $31.50
$28.35 - Any 12 or more bottles
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Huge aroma of blackberry and oak, with rich velvety tannins and texture on the palate. Loads of plum and currant in a warm progresion onto the finish....read more
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Made in an ice wine style from artificially frozen Pinot Blanc grapes, this Glace is always a big hit and sells fast. Truly a beautiful nectar. Sweet hints of peaches and crisp pear followed by notes of honey with a clean non-syrupy finish. ...read more
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The dark cherry aroma hints at a liqueur, a delicate progression of warmth, bery and a hint of citrus on the finish....read more
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Van Duzer Perplexity Red Dessert Wine 01 is new for Van Duzer in 2009.
The traditional Portugese grapes that are the stuff of fine Ports mingle seamlessly in Perplexity to serve up honeyed impressions of mulled plum and blackberry fruit. Arom...read more
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Four bottles each of three highly sought after Oregon Ice and Dessert wines.
The Pacific Northwest is one of the few sources for Ice Wine, and its late harvest and dessert wines are delicious. They make lovely gifts- serve them on special occ...read more
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From the winery: "Our Ice Wine is made by hand picking Riesling grapes from our Winery Hill Vineyard and pressing the clusters while still frozen. Because the water is frozen, the sugars, acids and flavor components are concentrated."...read more
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The Harris Bridge Shortline Dessert Wine is delicately sweet with an aroma of lilac and honey. There's a hint of apricot and sweet must on the finish....read more
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60% Riesling, 32% Gewurztraminer and 8% Muscat. While Riesling supplies the weight of this wine with fresh pear, apricot and honey notes the Gewurztraminer and Muscat add spiciness and aromatics, respectively. We often describe our Ultima as indul...read more
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Hogue Late Harvest White Riesling - Their most popular wine, a sweet, fresh, fruity wine with a clean, tangy finish. Aromas and flavors of dried apricot, tangerine, and powdered sugar with a hint of cocoa and mint on the finish. The wine has exce...read more
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Harris Bridge Two to One Pinot noir Dessert Wine
Price: $28.00
$25.20 - Any 12 or more bottles
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Hold your hats on...
We named this 2:1 for the ratio of skins to juice - twice the extraction for this concentrated juice gives this wine an intensity. Rich berry, bold tannins and complexity that will give this wine an incredible life. - the wine...read more
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Sweet Sydney is a Zinfandel Icewine named for the winemaker's beautiful and, well, sweet daughter, Sydney. Freezing Zinfandel effectively removes water as ice crystals concentrating sugars, flavors and aromas. In 2006 we pulled the juice off at 50+ ...read more
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Beautiful amber color. Aromas of apricots, white raisins, acacia honey, lychee, rose, Turkish Delight, and roasted nuts explode out of the glass. Thick and viscous on the palate, the wine is very sweet, but balanced by the strong phenolic and acid...read more
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David Hill Winery Sweet Simplicity Dessert Wine
Price: $12.75
$11.47 - Any 12 or more bottles
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David Hill Winery's Sweet Simplicy Dessert wine is made from 68% Semillon and 32% Sylvaner. The aromas remind you of a tropical paradise where bananas, pineapples, citrus and coconuts abound. The mouth feel is creamy and rich with an abundance of...read more
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Eola Hills Vin d'Epice is a Late Harvest Gewurztraminer. Wine Press NW says: "A delicious late-harvest wine with aromas of poached fruit and flavors of baked apples dripping with spicy honey. Hints of orange zest complete the wine. Won gold at the D...read more
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Eola Hills Vin d'Or dessert wine is a Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc.
It is a sweet, viscous "sticky" with intense peach and apple flavors....read more
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A Ruby style Port, a rich blend of juicy Malbec and deep spicy Zin. Medium-bodied with a flavorful profile of cherries, strawberries and raspberries backed by spice and plum notes. A very special wine in remembrance of a dear friend and his ship, ...read more
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Ice Wine Case Pack - 15% Off Retail!
Save $45.51
The Pacific Northwest offers values like no where else. We offer the rare and authentic ice wines, made from frozen grapes ...read more
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Chateau Ste. Michelle Chenin Blanc Ice Wine 06 - The wine is intensely rich and exudes ultra ripe melon aromas and flavors with a clean acidity....read more
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Sineann "The Precious" Late Harvest Gewurztraminer" Columbia Gorge 08 375 ml - Whoa, this puts the "sweet" in sweet wine. A mere 43% residual sugar, the Late Harvest Gewurztraminer is an incredibly concentrated dessert wine. The color alone will...read more
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Ponzi Vino Gelato Dessert Wine - A delightful ice wine with flavors of ripe peach and a bright, honeyed finish....read more
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O'Shea Scarborough Riesling Eiswein 07
Price: $39.95
$35.96 - Any 12 or more bottles
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O'Shea Scarborough Riesling Eiswein (Ice Wine) is VERY LIMITED AND RARE - a real Washington ice wine, harvested in the vineyard when the grapes froze overnight and conditions were perfect ( a very infrequent event).
Harvested December 1st , ...read more
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Kittling Ridge Vidal Ice Wine 04
Price: $48.95
$44.05 - Any 12 or more bottles
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Kittling Ridge Vidal Ice Wine is made in British Columbia and is internationally known as one of the higest rated ice wines in the world. A rich, exotic nectar offers up aromas of honey, mango, graham cracker, and ripe melon.
A twenty two time m...read more
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Okanagan Vineyards Ice Wine Chardonnay 06
Price: $42.45
$38.21 - Any 12 or more bottles
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The Okanagan VIneyards Chardonnay Ice Wine combines the scent of of golden dried grapes, apples and peaches with flavors of mango, papaya, and candied pineapple. Phenomenal with French Vanilla ice cream....read more
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Phelps Creek Vin Dore Dessert Wine 07
Price: $24.95
$22.45 - Any 12 or more bottles
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Phelps Creek Vin Dore 07 (golden wine) was produced by drying. Grapes from Washington's Oak Ridge Vineyard were picked very ripe before placing on racks to partially dry, intensifying their flavors resulting to make a complex and exotically aromatic...read more
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Wine Spectator rating 90 points: "Rich and thick, with a sweet/tart character, mango, guava and apricot flavors and a vibrant structure. An up-front style that's sure to please. Drink now through 2006."(BS)
From the winery: "An enchan...read more
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Troon Vineyard's Druid's Fluid Red Wine - Notes of chocolate mousse, raspberry, and mincemeat leap generously from the glass. Flavors are of cranberry and cassis. The traditional sweetness plays on the finish but is balanced by a definite tartne...read more
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MORE INFORMATION
Ice wine, late harvest wines, dessert wines
Ice wines are made by a surprising number
of Oregon and Washington wineries. TRUE ice wines, those mind boggling
elixirs of ambrosia, are almost entirely produced in North America
by a few wineries in British Columbia. We offer both types.
The Pacific Northwest produces some of the most highly rated sweet
wines in the world. Ice wines from British Columbia's Inniskillin and Jackson Triggs
wineries win top ratings internationally, the highest rating ever for
Chateau Ste Michelle was 97 points from Wine Spectator for a very limited
ice wine, and at lower price points, Oregon and Washington wineries
make world class "Ice
wine styled" wines,
ports, fruit based desert wines, and late harvest wines.
Dessert wines, often rare and expensive, are unique wines and the most difficult to make; but when successful, they earn some of the highest ratings given by our editors. Enlisted to do a specific job in a specific situation, these luscious nectars are the special teams of the wine world. They accompany the dessert course, or even take its place and star on their own. Yet despite delivering high quality more often than not, dessert wines are generally misunderstood, underestimated or simply ignored. - Bruce Sanderson, Wine Spectator
Ice Wines
ice wines are a specialty
of winemaking regions that rapidly become cold after harvest. Ice wines are fabulous
ultra-sweet dessert wines. The
most famous regions for ice wine are Germany, Austria and Canada.
British Columbia makes some of the worlds best.
Until recently, British Columbia's Ice Wines
were not available in the US. Now, we are thrilled to offer the BC
Ice Wines of Inniskillin and Jackson Triggs, and continue to offer
the ice wines of Chateau Ste Michelle, Covey Run, Kiona, and Andrew
Rich, all NW producers.
Washington
State produces a few Ice Wines, not usually as highly rated (or nearly
as expensive as BC Ice Wines) but
quite worthy, highly rated "stickies".
Oregon has Andrew Rich, whose Gewurztraminer
Ice Wine is a perennial highly rated, highly prized Ice Wine at a bargain
price.
What
is an "Ice Wine"
To
make a "true" Ice Wine, grapes are left on the vine long
after harvest and are picked by hand once temperatures reach a certain
level, usually about 17 degrees Fahrenheit (-8 Celsius). Typically wine workers will trudge through snow in the middle
of the night to pick the grapes. These marble-hard
grapes then are crushed. Since theyre frozen, just a few drops
of sweet juice is released and fermented. Because its
so hard to make and so little is made from the harvested fruit, ice
wine tends to be very expensive and is offered in half-bottles.
The best ice wines are those that retain natural
acidity in the face of late harvests and high sugars. This is why Riesling
is one of the finest varieties for ice wine. A few wineries also are
experimenting with red ice wines, using Pinot Noir, Merlot and Cabernet
Franc.
Frozen Grapes about to be Crushed for Ice Wine
A
small amount of ice wine is made in Washington and Idaho. Some wineries make ice wine by picking late-harvest grapes,
then freezing them. The resulting wines are not as good as the
real thing, although they are generally much less expensive. Changes in laws in 2003 forced wineries that
make such wines to label them as something other than ice wine. So
when you see ice wine on the label, you know youre
getting a true ice wine.
Grapes on the Vine, Ready to Pick
Ice wine grapes are left on the vine well into the winter
months. The resulting freezing and thawing of the grapes dehydrates
the fruit, and concentrates the sugars, acids, and extracts in the
berries, thereby intensifying the flavours and adding complexity to
the wine made from it.
Genuine
icewine must follow VQA (Vintners Quality Alliance) regulations that
prohibit any artificial freezing of grapes. The grapes are painstakingly
picked by hand in their natural frozen state, ideally at temperatures
of -10 to -13 degrees C -- sometimes the picking must be done at night
to take advantage of the temperature. Yields are very low, often as
little as 5-10 percent of normal.
The frozen grapes are pressed in the extreme
cold. The water in the juice remains frozen as ice crystals, and only
a few drops of sweet concentrated juice is obtained. This juice is
then fermented very slowly for several months, stopping naturally.
The finished icewine is intensely sweet and flavorful
in the initial mouth sensation. The balance is achieved by the acidity,
which gives a clean, dry finish. The nose of icewine recalls lychee
nuts. The wine tastes of tropical fruits, with shadings of peach nectar
and mango.
Icewine
is winter's gift to the wine lover: one of the best-kept secrets of
the wine world that garners gold medals in virtually every competition
in which it is entered.
The greatest of international accolade for Canadian
Icewine was bestowed on Inniskillin 1989 Icewine at Vinexpo, Bordeaux,
in June 1991. This wine, judged by an international panel, was accorded
the fair's highest award, Le Grand Prix d'Honneur.
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