Riesling Ice Wine, Henry of Pelham
Staff Pick

Half-Bottle of Riesling Ice Wine, Henry of Pelham - 2024

375 mL
Item # 70702

Full of apricot and peach-blossom aromas, this dessert wine is delightfully rich on the palate with great acidity to balance out its sweetness. Pair this with foie gras or just sip it, slightly chilled, as a dessert wine.

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Staff Pick Notes

Try one of Canada's national treasures!! Ice wine is harvested from grapes left on the vine till after the first freezing event. These grapes are hand harvested to ensure every bunch is absolutely perfect. Fresh fruit flavours of Apricot and Peche with aromas of white blossom and honeysuckle with a silky smooth texture will enhance any dessert course. Cellar the wine and try it later to really bring out the mineral character from the Niagara escarpment soil( a mix of glacial deposits, calcareous clay loam, silt and gravel overlying limestone and bedrock). This wine is delightfully rich on the palate but not cloying due to the refreshing natural acidity of the riesling grape

- CL

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Riesling

Though the trend is now in the other direction, for many years Riesling was known for producing wines with little alcohol and some residual sugar - too sweet for many modern wine drinkers. Though it's now cultivated worldwide, Riesling is nearly synonymous with German wine, and that country's winemakers have lately begun to produce some very exciting dry versions. They are careful to retain the delightful honeyed, flinty flavors that the best sweet Rieslings have always displayed. Alsace, of...

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