German ice wine

[Andrea]

Hello

I am inquiring about brands of German and Austrian ice wine and costs. Any information would be extemely helpful.

Thanks
andrea

[wondersofwine]

Don't think of it so much as a brand. The climatic conditions have to be right to produce an ice wine (frost impacting already ripe grapes without rains to rot them and then quick picking before a thaw). So you don't have Eisweins every year or from every vineyard. Kurt Darting usually has some Eisweins for sale. Joseph Leitz has an Eiswein from the Rudesheimer Drachenstein vineyard. Kracher is one of the noted Austrian producers and offers an Eiswein from the Niedlersee district (sp?) Eisweins in Germany and Austria too I think usually run at least $40-$50 for a 375 ml. bottle (half a normal size bottle). Some are even more expensive than that. Because the wine is so concentrated, a half bottle may be enough to share among four people as a dessert wine or after-dinner sipper.