June 16, 2009

A new product from Brazil - Ice Wine

Ice Wine is wonderful stuff. Freezing the grapes just before harvest concentrates the flavors and the sugars. The result is a very high gravity wine (18%ABV or greater) with a crystalline sweetness and intense flavor. These are generally served chilled as an after dinner dessert wine. Yummy stuff! Well, it seems that an established vineyard in Brazil just had its first freeze -- temps down to -7.5C. From Joe D�Aleo writing at Watts Up With That:
First Ever Ice Wine in Brazil
Our friends at the METSUL reports that for the first time ever in Brazil icewine has been produced in this unusually cold June in Southern Brazil. This is a release on the Vinicolo Vineyard website. The following is a rough web based translation from Portuguese to English. The original Portuguese story is here.
Just as a heads up, the vineyard is near Santa Catarina. Santa Catarina is located 46 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. I do not know what elevation but in terms of Latitude, Santa Catarina is at the same relative latitude as Ft. Meyers, Florida. It should be warm there... Posted by DaveH at June 16, 2009 7:01 PM
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