Wine: Best Producers: Canadian Dessert Wine

Canada has slowly but surely been building a reputation as one of the world's most abundant and consistent producers of Icewine, a style most closely associated with Germany. There it is produced in miniscule quantities at astronomical prices--and even then, only in favorable years.

Most of Canada's Icewine is produced on the Niagara Peninsula, a designated, cool growing region that can always count on a sustained cold spell in January to freeze Riesling or Vidal grapes on the vine. These grapes, when pressed in their frozen state, produce extraordinarily concentrated sweet wines with enough acidity to keep them fresh and uncloying. Given Canada's northerly latitude, other regions, namely Okanagen Valley in BC, are also proving able to make outstanding Icewine. US consumers have not yet been urged to seek these gems by the mainstream media; hence, they are not in widespread distribution. Devotees and enthusiasts will have to look to specialist wine shops in major markets.

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