Jonathan Ray's Wine Pick: Inniskillin Niagara Estate Riesling Icewine 2021
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Icewine is Canada’s gift to the world, well, more specifically, Ontario’s gift to the world. What? Oh, yes, Ontaria makes wine and darn good wine too.
There are over 100 wineries in the Niagara Peninsula alone, farming some 14,000 acres and producing Rieslings, Chardonnays, Pinot Noirs and glorious, giggle-makingly tasty Icewines, the most celebrated of which comes from mighty Inniskillin.
Fully ripe grapes are left on the vine to freeze and are handpicked, berry by berry, only once the temperature has fallen to below -8C and the concentration of sugar is almost double that of normal grapes.
The result is stunning, a sweet wine of ridiculous charm, full of ripe apricot, pear and mango. Quite simply, Inniskillin makes sweet wines to rival the best in the world and I include Ch. Yquem. Enjoy a glass over one of Steve Edwards’s sublime puddings at Etch or buy a bottle at Brunswick. Either way you won’t stop grinning.
The details
2021 Inniskillin Niagara Estate Riesling Icewine( 9.5%vol)
£63.95 per 50cl. Available at Brunswick Fine Wines or to drink in at etch. by Steven Edwards
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