Peller Estates Vidal Icewine 37.5cl Half Bottle

Description

Peller Estates Vidal Icewine is a Canadian dessert wine. It is made from 100% Vidal grapes and is bottled under the Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA). Presented in 37.5cl half bottles.

Peller Estates: Award-Winning Canadian Dessert Wines from Niagara

Peller Estates is a renowned Canadian winery located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. It is located at 43º latitude, within the same latitudinal range as Southern France, Rioja in Spain, Chianti Classico in Italy, and Oregon in the USA.

Peller is celebrated for their premium Canadian wines, particularly sweet Icewines and method traditional Canadian sparkling wines. Hungarian immigrant Andrew Peller founded Peller and has been making wine in Niagara for three generations. The Peller Estates brand and its flagship Niagara winery were officially launched in 2001. It has been awarded Canadian Winery of the Year multiple times.

Icewine: Wine Made From Frozen Grapes

The Niagara Peninsula is the only place in the world where, every single year, the summers are warm enough to ripen red wine grapes, but the winters are cold enough to make Icewine (without ever becoming so cold that the vines do not survive).  In addition to this fantastic Vidal Icewine, Peller Estates also makes Riesling Icewine, Cabernet Franc Icewine, and sparkling wines, which are also available to buy at Fareham Wine Cellar.

Peller Estates Vidal Icewine Winemaking

• Grapes for Peller Estates Signature Series Vidal Icewine are always picked at temperatures of at least -10°C.
• The grapes remain frozen on the vine and are hand-picked in the middle of the cold Canadian night.
• Once picked, the grapes are pressed immediately while still frozen, releasing only one drop of pure extract from each grape.
• Authentic Icewine differs significantly from other dessert wines.
• Before being picked in late December, the grapes undergo 8 to 10 freeze-thaw cycles.
• Each freeze cycle releases new and more complex flavours into the juice from the grape.
• The wine is aged 100% in stainless steel.
• The signature of great Icewine is the balancing tension between sweetness and acidity.
• The residual sugar level for the 2019 vintage is 185 g/L.

This Canadian Vidal Icewine is suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA)

Bottled under the Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA), a system which has been established in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia to designate Viticultural Areas, regional appellations and sub-appellations, similar to the French AOC.

What is the Vidal Grape Variety?

Vidal is a hybrid grape variety produced from the Vitis vinifera variety Ugni blanc (also known as Trebbiano Toscano) and another hybrid variety called Rayon d’Or. It is a very winter-hardy grape variety able to produce good sugar levels in cooler climates. It was developed in France in the 1930s with the intention of creating a grape variety suitable for the production of Cognac. Vidal never really caught on in Cognac but has found a home in Canada, North America and even in Sweden at the Blaxsta Winery.