Guy:

If you want to make an ice wine from a kit...buy an ice wine kit.
There are some good ones out there. So far, I prefer Vineco's Ken
Ridge Classic white ice wine. However, the clear winner at the recent
Winemaker awards was a Vidal Ice wine from Spagnols. I have not tried
it.

You can, however, turn the Island Mist kit into a DESSERT WINE,
similar to an ice wine. I have not done this with Island Mist, but I
have done it with Niagara Mist, and things should work the same.

I made the base as a less than 11 litre batch so that I could use a 3
gallon/11 litre carboy. Not certain what exact size, but would guess
about 10 litres. Then made it as per usual. Used all the additives,
and all of the F-pack.

The first time I used one package of yeast (EC-1118) and fermentation
was very slow. The second time I added a second package and it
seemed faster.

The customer really likes the Peach Chardonnay dessert wine, and has
said that she will probably do another in the future. I found the
Strawberry White Zin that we did for ourselves a bit strong in the
strawberry flavour. Would probably use 2/3 to 3/4 of the F pack if
there is a next time. (My wife has recently found out that she is
diabetic, so we'll have to avoid neat stuff like ice & dessert wines.
Not that we drank a lot of it.)

Steve

On 21 Jun 2006 07:37:39 -0700, "guy" > wrote:

>Instead of adding water to and Island Mist kit to make 23L for a sweet
>wine of 6,5% alcohol,I added only so much water to make it 10.5% alc.
>I will add the full contents of the F-pack to get a wine closer to an
>Ice wine (imitation) than to an original Island Mist wine. Anybody has
>done that or has anything against doing that?
>
>TIA,
>Guy