Vidal Blanc Ice Wine and glass, by Andres Varela

Wine Specs

Vintage

2007

Varietal

Vidal Blanc

Appellation

Finger Lakes

Harvest Date

Dec. 1, 2007

Sugar

43 degreesBrix at harvest

Total Acidity

9.9 g/L

3.8

Aging

Stainless steel

Fermentation

Cold temp. with R-HST yeast

Bottling Date

Jun. 23, 2010

Residual Sugar

26%

Alcohol%

10.5

From Grapes to Ice Wine

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United Nations recipe

Vidal Blanc Ice Wine 2007

Estate Grown & Bottled

Our marquee wine, featured on NBC's Today Show, Vidal Blanc Ice Wine is a rare and lusciously sweet after-dinner wine with rich honey, apricot and exotic fruit flavors. Genuine ice wines (picked completely frozen, pressed frozen, never thawed) are rare by their very nature. Even rarer is this opportunity to enjoy an aged ice wine. With time, genuine ice wines darken in color, with raisin and honey notes predominating.

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Our Vidal Blanc Ice Wine has been served at the United Nations, ordered by the White House and featured on NBC's Today. In the 1980s, Art and Joyce Hunt became the first major producers of genuine ice wine in the United States, and it remains our marquee wine today. Our specially-chosen Vidal Blanc grapes are left on the vine through the normal harvest period, allowing them to develop further complexity of flavors and sweetness. If the grapes are able to survive this period through successive cycles of frost, light freezing and Indian summer, we wait for a cold front that can deliver an extended period of 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, the water molecules that make up most of the grape freeze, but the rest (which provides the flavor) does not. We hand-pick the grapes at this temperature and press them frozen to produce a trickle of golden nectar. Slow fermentation at cool temperatures yields this rare and lusciously sweet wine that bursts with honey, apricot and exotic fruit flavors. Serve well chilled on its own, or with a wide variety of desserts, as a grand finale to a fine meal. A bottle serves approximately six 2-ounce glasses.

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WINNER, JEFFERSON CUP, 2014 Jefferson Cup Invitational Wine Competition
DOUBLE GOLD Medal and BEST OF CLASS, 2014 Grand Harvest Awards, Sonoma County, CA
GOLD Medal, 2015 Riverside (Calif.) International Wine Competition, Santa Rosa, CA
GOLD Medal, 2015 Finger Lakes International Wine Competition, Mendon, NY
Vidal Blanc Ice Wine 2007
95 RATING (Exceptional wine) and GOLD Medal,
2010 World Wine Championships, Beverage Testing Institute (tastings.com)
EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN GREATNESS (Gold), 2010 Jefferson Cup Invitational Wine Competition
GOLD Medal, 2011 Big E Northeast Gold Wine Competition
Vidal Blanc Ice Wine 2006 (Sold Out)
94 Rating (Exceptional wine) and Gold Medal, 2009 World Wine Championships, tastings.com
Double Gold Medal and Best of Category (Dessert Wines), 2008 NYS Fair Commercial Wine Comp.
Gold Medal, 2008 Tasters Guild International Wine Judging
Gold Medal, 2008 Grand Harvest Awards
Example of American Greatness (Gold), 2007 Jefferson Cup Invitational Wine Competition
Gold Medal, 2008 Big E Northeast Gold Wine Competition
Vidal Blanc Ice Wine 2005 (Sold Out)
Gold Medal, 2007 Florida State Fair International Wine Competition
Gold Medal, 2006 Amenti del Vino Wine Competition
Gold Medal, 2006 Big E Northeast Gold Wine Competition
Gold Medal and Best of Clasa (Ice Wines), 2006 NY State Fair Commercial Wine Competition

Product Reviews

Nicholas Gimbrone

(Feb 28, 2012 at 6:20 PM)

Spectacular! The rich, complex flavors and smooth texture play wonderful games with the entire mouth. This is the wine which has brought us back to this producer time after time. It really shows off both the Finger Lakes region, and more importantly the skills of this vineyard.

major lewis

(Aug 13, 2013 at 6:11 PM)

accurate discription of bold flavors-never said wow before

Ginger Harbin

(Mar 22, 2015 at 2:16 PM)

Awesome! Birthday gift for our son. Now I am going to have to replace the bottles I bought!

Jennifer colsrud

(Feb 6, 2016 at 2:38 PM)

Wow amazing just finished the bottle myself didnt realize it!

Timothy seaman

(Feb 27, 2016 at 4:31 PM)

Absolutely amazing tasting wine definitely no lack of flavors well worth the money.

Jesse Sawyer

(Jul 19, 2016 at 6:01 AM)

After buying a bottle for my wife for her Birthday - she has falling in love with it. I buy her a bottle every week end. thanks for making life easier for me.