icewine in pictures
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Klaus Reif is a 13th generation winemaker. The Reif family has been making wine for over 300 years.
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Klaus Reif is the only winemaker in the world who makes Icewine on two continents: North America (Icewine) and Europe (Eiswein)
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The Niagara Escarpment below Niagara Falls creates a micro climate perfect for cold weather viticulture.
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While many grapes are harvested in September, Icewine grapes are left on the vine until the perfect conditions for Icewine, usually well into January.
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The natural freezing and thawing creates the complex flavours that only nature can give to the grape
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Ice can be friend or foe to the winter harvest. Icewine grapes are a farmer’s biggest gamble
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Netting keeps birds and other hazards away while the grapes “earn their terroir”
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When the grape freezes, the water in the grape turns to ice. When it is crushed, a richer, sweeter juice is extracted, leaving the ice crystals in the crusher
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Sometimes grapes are harvested by hand and sometimes by machine. Even in a snowstorm, it is important to pick when the grapes are ready!
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Harvest continues through the night and into the early morning harvest, while the moisture in the grapes is still frozen
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When the grape freezes, the water in the grape turns to ice. When it is crushed, a richer, sweeter juice is extracted, leaving the ice crystals in the crusher
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Icewine Grapes must be crushed while still frozen to separate the ice crystals from the very sweet juice (typically between 32 and 42 brix)
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Klaus Reif samples the juice in the dark and early hours of the cold morning. By law, harvesting must only take place between 11pm and 11am.
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The Icewine Festival is held in Niagara every January. Icewine Martinis are made in a luge that has been sculpted out of ice.
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It takes 6-10 times more grapes to make a litre of Icewine than a table wine. The massive presses are only used during harvest, perhaps 5 days per year
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In 1989 Robert M Parker called Klaus Reif’s Icewine “One of the top 10 dessert wines in the world”! Klaus has been improving each vintage ever since!
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