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).

Peller Estates has been making wine in Niagara for three generations. Located at 43º latitude, the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario, home to Peller Estate, is within the same latitudinal range as Southern France, Rioja in Spain, Chianti Classico in Italy, and Oregon in the USA.  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.

Grapes for Peller Estates Vidal Icewine are always picked at temperatures of at 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 releasing only one drop of pure extract from each grape. Authentic Icewine is very different from other dessert wines; before being picked in late December, the grapes freeze and thaw 8 to 10 times. Each time they freeze, new and more complex flavours are released 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 for the 2019 is 185 g/L. This icewine is suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

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.