Cabernet Franc Ice Wine, Inniskillin
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Half-Bottle of Cabernet Franc Ice Wine, Inniskillin - 2019

Item # 11582 375mL

The red berry characteristics of Cabernet Franc give this Ice Wine strawberried aromas. Completely different from the white ice wines in both fruit profile and color itself due to the fact that this was made from frozen red grapes.
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Color
Red
Vintage
2019
Country
Canada
Region
Ontario
Sub-Region
Niagara Peninsula
Producer
Inniskillin
Grape Variety
Cabernet Franc
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Staff Pick Notes

At Inniskillin, they let the best grapes hang on the vine until completely frozen, and only harvests frozen berries when the temperature falls between 17.6 and 7 degrees F. Ice wine (Eiswein in Germany) requires wine makers to press frozen berries outside, lest the berries melt and ruin the arduous task of picking in the frigid hours of nighttime. (The basket press is rolled on sleighs!) Inniskillin has found a niche making red icewine from the cabernet franc grape. Notes of tomato leaf, red fruit, strawberry rhubarb preserves, syrupy cherries, and tobacco leaf are exciting flavors not usually found in dessert wines. A natural match for chocolate desserts. Freezing the berries means that 80% of the grape mass, water, is removed from the equation of wine. The result is a highly concentrated and balanced glass of wine.

- SS

Glossary

Cabernet Franc

Relegated to moderate obscurity in modern times, Cabernet Franc is in fact the proud parent of the attention-hogging Cabernet Sauvignon (after an illicit affair with Sauvignon Blanc a hundred-odd years ago). Cabernet Franc has remained close to its roots in France, enjoying small pockets of popularity primarily in the Loire Valley (specifically in Chinon), where it is often bottled as a varietal wine, and in Bordeaux where it is still used in moderate percentages in the typical blends. In fact,...

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