The weather has been warm here in Pa. We have had no snow yet. On the
other hand, I had a taste of an ice wine made in Erie, PA and didn't like it
much. I thought that it was way too sweet.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06362/749473-84.stm

Hello Barb,

I just got an email newsletter from Pinnacle Ridge, a Berks County
producer, indicating that the window was closing for icewine and that
they might make a 'late harvest" wine out of their Vidal grapes
instead. The month is still young, however; January is usually our
coldest month.

Dan-O (it was 38 deg.F here this morning)

Barb wrote:
> The weather has been warm here in Pa. We have had no snow yet. On the
> other hand, I had a taste of an ice wine made in Erie, PA and didn't like it
> much. I thought that it was way too sweet.
>
> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06362/749473-84.stm

I tasted a few ice wines on our annual wine tasting trip to the finger
lakes. Agree the two I tried were WAY too sweet.

I did try several late harvests which tasted much better.

Americana Late Harvest in particular deserves mention.

So if a wine is harvested in Jan is it vintage 2006 or 2007?


Dan the Man wrote:
> Hello Barb,
>
> I just got an email newsletter from Pinnacle Ridge, a Berks County
> producer, indicating that the window was closing for icewine and that
> they might make a 'late harvest" wine out of their Vidal grapes
> instead. The month is still young, however; January is usually our
> coldest month.
>
> Dan-O (it was 38 deg.F here this morning)

"Mike Tommasi" > wrote in message
...
> DaleW wrote:
>> So if a wine is harvested in Jan is it vintage 2006 or 2007?
>
> 2007 of course. As an example, I know that Inniskillin had two harvests
> one year recently.
>

Interesting. Are the two harvests differentiated and indicated somehow on
the bottles i.e. 2006a and 2006b?

Monika

"jIM" > skrev i melding
ups.com...
>
> Barb wrote:
>> The weather has been warm here in Pa. We have had no snow yet. On the
>> other hand, I had a taste of an ice wine made in Erie, PA and didn't like
>> it
>> much. I thought that it was way too sweet.
>>
Mind you, the original German Ice wine is certainly very sweet, but also
balanced by a blistering acidity which makes it a fabulous drink :-). Your
specimens probably had too little of that.
Anders

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:10:28 +0100, Mike Tommasi >
wrote:

>Mike Tommasi wrote:
>> DaleW wrote:
>>> So if a wine is harvested in Jan is it vintage 2006 or 2007?
>>
>> 2007 of course. As an example, I know that Inniskillin had two harvests
>> one year recently.
>>
>>
>
>Sorry got confused, it is the year of the growing season that matters.
>
>http://www.inniskillin.com/en/news/2... ressReleases
>
>Must have had too much of that 2001... ;-)

Legally, there may be a difference between Canadian law and US law in
this regard. I distinctly remembe ronce being shown in a wine shop
two bottles of Columbia Crest late harvest riesling with the same
vintage year (199x). One was denoted "second harvest". The shop owner
showed me someting published by the winery that said the grapes for
the other one were harvested in February of 199x. The one labeled
"second harvest" was made from grapes harvested shortly after the 199x
regular harvest.

Vino