Icewine
December 10th, 2008 at 07:30pm Cherry Magic Sheryl
This is what I woke up to this morning. 
Ever optimistic(that and the fact that some days it is indeed warm enough to lounge) I’ve left the plastic lounger beneath the tree.
It was such a beautiful, icey drive to Niagara-on-the-lake that I stopped to take some photographs for those of you who are unfamiliar with icewine. I doubt Lou’s local winery makes any. 
Grapes are carefully wrapped to protect them before the Icewine Harvest,often around the winter solstice. Temperatures have to drop, and stay below 17F before the grapes can be picked. This ensures dehydration is complete so that the sugar content of the grape is coma inducing. It’s a proces done entirely by hand, and most often in the middle of the night so that the grapes, and workers, remain frozen until pressing. When you consider it takes an entire vine to make one glass of wine you could see how costly a mistakes can be. Not that I’ve actually heard of workers being pressed in with the wine…
Once the midnight party is over, the vines are bare. Still pretty though.
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