ice wine

noun

plural ice wines

: a sweet wine made by pressing frozen grapes that have been allowed to freeze on the vine before being harvested : eiswein

Records indicate the first ice wine pressing occurred in the German region of Franconia, in 1794, when an unusually early frost greeted surprised vintners with a frozen crop of grapes.—

Jeff Morgan

One of the world's most exotic potions is ice wine, a delicious sweet wine that is rare, difficult to make and eagerly sought by connoisseurs. It is the product of frozen grapes intentionally left on the vines long after the normal harvest and then harvested after a solid frost.—

Terry Robards

Examples of ice wine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The meal starts with a burrata salad composed of crispy prosciutto, baby kale, microgreens and fresh berries tossed in an ice wine vinaigrette. —

Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 13 Feb. 2024 Head there in mid to late summer for the latest crop, or, for those adventurous enough, go over the winter months to catch the ice wine harvest with your closest friends. —

Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024 The celebration of ice wine begins in March. —

Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2022 Riesling can be made in a variety of ways from super dry with little or no residual sugar to a very sweet style such as German or Canadian ice wine. —

Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2023 See all Example Sentences for ice wine

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