Fake Canadian Icewine in China......

[TheEngineer]

Okay....now I'm really p!ssed.

Apparently sells for about 25% to 50% of the price and is made by freezing grapes in the fridge instead..........and must be a bunch of other things.....

What will they think of next???? Fake 1982 Chateau Lafite????

[dananne]

Well, if they are calling their product Canadian Icewine, that's one thing, but freezing their grapes after harvest instead of letting them freeze on the vine is not all that unusual. Bonny Doon's Vin de Glacier is produced that way, and I recently had a lovely wine called Minus Five by Argyle that was made the same way.

[stevebody]

Wow! The title of this post! Now I have the name for my new post-punk power trio!

[winoweenie]

Vintners have been making Icewine (Eiswein) this way fro decades. As long as the grapes have hit the proper Brix levels the method of freezing is irrellavent. WW

[TheEngineer]

Sorry to imply that the freezing was the issue. It is not as I have had wines made by freezing.

However, to mark a product as Canadian Icewine implies that wine is made in a certain manner and also a certain price point. If they get 25%-50% of a $200 on this premise, then they are really misrepresenting the product.