Although there are several types of wine you buy one of the most unknown is ice wine. Ice wine is a very rare form of wine, a wine produced under certain types of weather. Ice wine is mainly produced in the Northwest region, where weather conditions are right for wine.
As ironic as it is, ice wine is produced in very small quantities. With wine, requiring only the fines of quality and lack of availability, the product is extremely rare indeed. Truth be told, there are only a lucky few who actually are able to buy wine. Ice wine, due to the scarce amount, can be extremely expensive and out of the price range for a majority of us.
Much like the beauty of owning a diamond, ice wine is something that many of us hope and dream to experience at some point in our lives. Although the material is rare that the weather conditions are even more crucial to producing this wine. Once the right weather conditions arrive, the wine maker prepares to produce this extremely rare and expensive wine.
The basic requirements needed to produce ice wine are fully ripened grapes and a temperature of about 5 degrees C. There should be no variation in temperature for several days, it would give Vintners to complete the process of making wine. Grapes that are frozen during these extremely cold temperatures are hand picked at night by the wine maker and his assistants.
To produce a bottle of wine, ice cream, full of wine grapes may be required. Once the grapes have been collected, they are gently pressed, in order to collect the running juice only. Temperature creates the frozen water crystals, which are fermented along with sugars and the particles exist in the free running juices. Through this process, the wonderful and rare ice wine is created.
If you've seen to try ice wine, finding it can be very difficult. As you probably already know that most alcohol and wine stores do not sell this rare wine. Finding it online is very hard to do as well, unless you catch it at the right time. Even then, if you are able to find it, it can easily cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single bottle.
The best way to experience ice wine is to find the right wine maker in the Northwest region. Although the bottles go extremely fast when they are made, you may be able to catch a wine maker with some on hand. Be prepared to spend a hefty amount though. Although it is rare to find and are not economic, but ice wine is worth every effort because of its unique feel and taste.
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