Icewine???

[Thomas]

Dallas,

An ice wine is a dessert wine, just one that is produced in a particular way.

In brief: in certain years, when certain weather conditions exist, grapes are allowed to stay on the vine until frost settles on the already dried up grapes to encase them in ice. They are handpicked--extremely carefully and at a proscribed outdoor temperature--and then processed into what becomes an intensely sweet wine.

Because of their low juice to grape ratio, and the extreme labor involved, ice wines are not cheap. And because of the weather restrictions placed on their production, they are generally not produced every year.

As to which ice wines to recommend--I'll leave that to someone else.