Peller Riesling Icewine 2007
Price £33.90
Stock Level: 4
| Grape: | Riesling |
| Strength: | 11% |
| Style: | Sweet |
| Size: | 37.5cl |
| Cellar Notes: | naturally frozen Riesling grapes are hand harvested from Niagara-on-the-Lake vineyards at -10°C. The grapes are pressed frozen, releasing only one drop of pure extract from each grape. The fermentation is performed at a cool temperature to retain fruit concentration then aged in stainless steel
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| Appearance: | delicate straw yellow colour |
| Aromas: | intriguing aroma of lemon drops, quince, Bartlett pear and golden raspberries, with a touch of floral honey |
| Palate: | displays a luscious yet elegant mouth-feel with fruit flavours of lemon, melon, papaya, mango and orange. It has a refreshing acidity and a long length. |
| Serving Notes: | served chilled at 8 - 10°C. A wonderful accompaniment dishes such as paté or with foie gras for a mouth sensation. Also a wonderful companion to salty appetisers or cheese (such as mild blue cheeses) and an absolute must with fruit based desserts! |
Vineyard notes:
The Peller family have been making wine in Niagara for 3 generations, and are widely regarded as one of the highest quality and most innovative of Icewine producers. Peller Icewine is a rare gift from a magical Canadian winter. Picked at the coldest moment of a winter’s night, each frozen grape creates just one drop of Icewine. One smooth rich, luxurious drop, at its best when it’s served wintery cold and sipped before dessert, with dessert or even as a dessert. Icewine is a rare dessert wine produced from the juice of naturally frozen grapes that have been picked in the middle of a cold Canadian winter. At 43 degrees latitude, the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario, home of Peller Family Estates is within the same latitudinal range as Southern France, Rioja in Spain, Chianti Classico in Italy and Oregon. The Niagara Peninsula is the only place in the world where every single year the summers are so warm red wine grapes can be ripened, but the winters are cold enough to make Icewine (but never so cold that the vines do not survive!) Grapes for Peller’s Icewines are always picked at temperatures of least -10ºC, with the grapes frozen on the vine and hand-picked in the middle of the cold Canadian night. Once picked, the grapes are pressed immediately while still frozen. Each frozen grape yields just one drop of intensely frozen juice. Authentic Icewine is very different from other dessert wines; prior to being picked in late December, the grapes freeze and then thaw 8 to 10 times. Each time they freeze, new and more complex flavours are released into the juice from the grape. The signature of great Icewine is the balancing tension between sweetness and acidity.
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