2006 Eroica Riesling Ice Wine

Eastern Washington's climate with its potential temperature extremes is a perfect candidate to produce great ice wine in appropriate years. Ice wine is rare because it requires a hard freeze below 14 degrees with healthy fruit still hanging on the vine. We harvested the Eroica ice wine grapes during freeze conditions in 2006 and 2008 at our Horse Heaven Vineyard. The grapes are picked and pressed immediately while frozen, releasing only sweet, concentrated juice-and leaving the water, in the form of ice, behind. The juice undergos a long, slow, cold fermentation for several months. The wine is an exotic, luscious, ultra ripe wine with concentrated aromas and flavors of apricot and honey.

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