tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post2540215199580059120..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Ice Wine!Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-11124519108435552742009-07-13T16:28:05.199+01:002009-07-13T16:28:05.199+01:00If you should find yourself in NZ it's well wo...If you should find yourself in NZ it's well worth enjoying their fine botrytised wines, which our Euoromasters will not let them export here.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-69981618884849217572009-07-13T14:52:39.314+01:002009-07-13T14:52:39.314+01:00Ice wine is also a category in which Canada produc...Ice wine is also a category in which Canada produces the best of. A lot of that has to do with our climate. Follow more Canadian wine tidbits at twitter.com/WineTweetCanadaTrevorhttp://twitter.com/WineTweetCanadanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-45919446017752249942009-07-12T19:23:17.697+01:002009-07-12T19:23:17.697+01:00I love ice wine, and have also sampled some of the...I love ice wine, and have also sampled some of the stuff produced around Niagara, I thought it was lovely too! Generally i've had more exposure to Austrian ice wine, made from the gruner veltliner grape, and the difference between ice wine and the other sweet austrian trockenbeerenauslese is marked - there's so much more of the original grape flavour in the ice wine and a much steelier balance than the wines made from dried or botrytized grapes<br /><br />cheers!wormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-88113756146472413382009-07-12T18:56:30.519+01:002009-07-12T18:56:30.519+01:00How often we stuff gifts into dusty crevasses, onl...How often we stuff gifts into dusty crevasses, only years later bringing them into the daylight and discovering their worth, cursing the time lost savoring the delights introduced to us.<br />Canadian wine? goodness, what next, Swedish Barolo, Eritrean champagne?<br />A respected German customer who was a major manufacturer of wine producing equipment had his own vineyard near Tubingen and presented me with a case of his own chateau Speidel, rotwein, 1987 vintage, warned by his son of its lack of, well, anything really, it was consigned to an outbuilding, suffering the trials of seasonal temperature changes. Discovering the long forgotten carton some years later and Frau Malty in one of her economy drive modes we gave it a bash. Magnificent, oh joy, nectar.<br />Unfortunately the old Kraut had by then downed the remainder himself.<br />All of this pales in insignificance compared with the Obstmetres freebies courtesy of an Iranian / American/ Jarrow lad who collects stuff.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.com