ice wine

noun

1. any white dessert wine produced from grapes that are kept on the vine until the first deep frost and typically pressed while still frozen.

Example Sentences

Each winery will offer you a selection of wine samples, including the Niagara region's famous ice wine, fruit wines and of course, white and red wine.

From Salon

The frost had come at the ideal moment, and the old German vintner could now, if he were lucky, reap a harvest worth far more than the ordinary yield of table wine and known as Eiswein, or, as the English call it, ice wine.

From Seattle Times

In some distant future, an unthinkably vast land to the west known as Canada would take over as the primary producer of ice wine, due to the sheer mass of arable land, but wee Germany would still remain number two.

From Seattle Times

It was said the Romans first produced ice wine in Italy, but the German vintner found it hard to believe Italy ever got cold enough to freeze the grapes.

From Seattle Times

Casa Larga Vineyards in Fairport, near Rochester, is hosting a state ice wine festival next month.

From Seattle Times