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Tasting facts
Taste: Sweet
Drinking window · 2024–2034
With food · Sweet desserts, Mild and soft cheese
Producer pairings · Perfect on its own; blue veined, aged cheddar, rich cream cheeses with dried fruits; seared scallops; lobster; rich pates; fruit based desserts.
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- Producer
- Inniskillin
- Founded
- 1975
- Founder
- Donald Ziraldo and Karl Kaiser
- Home region
- Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
- Flagship
- Vidal Icewine
- Ownership
- Arterra Wines Canada
Founded by Donald Ziraldo and Karl Kaiser, it won the first post-Prohibition winery licence in Niagara in 1975, made its first icewine in 1984, and its 1989 Vidal Icewine won the Grand Prix d'Honneur at Vinexpo in 1991.
Located in Niagara-on-the-Lake at the historic Brae Burn Estate, Inniskillin has been producing world-renowned Icewines from grapes grown in the Niagara Peninsula since 1984. Vidal is a hybrid (Ugni Blanc and Seibel) with a thick skin suited to late harvest, and the grape grown most for Icewine in Ontario.
WikipediaSustainability / production facts
- Icewine grapes harvested at the height of winter, naturally frozen on the vine, picked when temperature drops to -10C
Icewine / Dessert Moscato
Inniskillin Vidal Icewine (375ML half-bottle) 2024
- Customer Favorite · 4.1 stars · Vivino
Description
Lush aromatics of peach peel, mango, lemon and orange peel; palate mirrors nose with more apricot and peach skin; great natural acidity throughout the mid palate, long bright finish. Grapes: 100% Vidal Blanc.
Winemaker Notes
This truly iconic icewine has lush aromatics of peach peel, mango, lemon and orange peel. The palate mirrors the nose with more apricot and peach skin. Great natural acidity is evident throughout the mid palate, leading to a long rounded finish. Austrian-born and monastically educated, Karl J. Kaiser, and native Canadian Donald J.P. Ziraldo, a decendant of a family of winegrowers in Northern Italy, founded Innisklillin Wines on July 31, 1975, obtaining the first winery license granted in the province of Ontario since 1929. Located in Niagara-on-the-Lake at the historic Brae Burn Estate, Inniskillin was founded upon and is dedicated to the principle of producing outstanding wines from vinifera wine grapes grown in the Niagara Peninsula. Karl and Donald tirelessly tested the new ground of Niagara, grafting old-world wisdom in the new-world terroir. Inniskillin rocketed to international notoriety when its pioneering 1989 Vidal Icewine was awarded the Grand Prix d'Honneur at Vinexpo 1991, and drew worldwide attention to Canada's burgeoning wine industry. *What is Icewine?* VQA Icewine is a highly concentrated dessert wine made by harvesting grapes naturally frozen on the vine at -10 C in December-January. Inniskillin VQA Icewine is internationally awarded and recognized and is exported throughout the world.
- Type
- Dessert
- Varietal
- Icewine / Dessert Moscato
- Grapes
- Icewine, Dessert Moscato
- Region
- Country
- Canada
- Price band
- $60+
- ABV
- 10%
- pH
- 3.6
- Total acidity
- 10.72 g/L
- Residual sugar
- 215 g/L
- LWIN
- 1276046
Vintage history
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