Ice Wine
Ice wine is made from grapes picked when they are frozen. Although this was recorded as happening in the Mosel region of Germany in the late 18th century it only became a style of dessert wine that winemakers regularly sought to produce back in the 1960s. Austria and Ontario/Canada are the other two main producers, but climate change in Europe has made the right conditions (hard frost between the main harvest and New Years) increasingly rare. Gut Hermannsberg has a tradition for making ice wine, High acidity and tropical fruit aromas are typical for young ice wine, an intense caramel note developing with bottle aging.