Ice wine

icewine, eiswein

Ice wine (or icewine; german: eiswein) is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. the sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing for a more concentrated grape juice to develop. the grapes' must is then pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet juice. with ice wines, the freezing happens before the fermentation, not afterwards. unlike the grapes from which other dessert wines are made, such as sauternes, tokaji, or trockenbeerenauslese, ice wine grapes should not be affected by botrytis cinerea or noble rot, at least not to any great degree. only health...

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