Lakeview Cellars Vidal Icewine 2019

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Vidal

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Citrus Fruit, Mineral, Stone Fruit, and Tropical Fruit,

BODY: Medium +
DRYNESS: Very Sweet
ACIDITY: Medium +
TANNIN: Light
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Origin: Ontario, Canada

Grape Varietals:

Vidal

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Freezing

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WESTERN FOOD PAIRING
Vanilla bean ice cream with peach slices, peach cobbler, blue cheese, foie gras, apple tart with whipped cream

ASIAN FOOD PAIRING
Japanese fruit tart, Asian fruit salad, Korean Bingsu

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Lakeview Cellars Vidal Icewine 2019

Lakeview Cellars Vidal Icewine is a fresh and lively classic Vidal Icewine. Notes of honey, peach, lychee, pineapple and freshly cut citrus fruits. The complex palate has an acidic backbone to create a harmonious balance.

100% Vidal. The grapes for lakeview wines come from the best vineyards in the Niagara region and benefit from the coastal breezes of Lake Ontario. The wines all bear the “VQA Niagara Peninsula” seal. VQA stands for “Vintners Quality Alliance”, an appellation and regulation system for original Canadian wines that guarantees quality and authenticity.

Harvesting the frozen Vidal grapes in mid-December when temperatures fell between -10 and -13. After settling the juice in stainless steel tanks, cool fermentation was completed in mid-February when the wine was placed outdoors to stop fermentation and complete a natural cold stabilisation.

Lush & Balanced Desserts

Many of these wines often have been touched by botrytis, and have a beautiful balance between fruit & acidity. Despite being lush, they often have some brightness or mineraility to them, and are not as thick textured as some other dessert styles. Classic notes would be honey, botrytis, apricot, peach and other stonefruit, marmalade, spice

Ice Wine (Eiswein)

Made from grapes that were left ot freeze on the vine, and then pressed when frozen. This allows the sugars to separate from the water, resulting in highly concentrated wines, that could be some of the sweetest in the world
Difficult to produce due to various challenges in keeping the grapes frozen & pressing them when solid, it's a risky & challenging wine to make