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Vidal Blanc Ice Wine
Vidal Blanc was developed in the 1930s in France by Jean Louis Vidal. His primary goal in developing the variety was to produce vines suitable for the production of Cognac in the Charente region of France. However, due to its winter hardiness this grape variety is cultivated most extensively in Canada and in the north-eastern United States.
The wine produced from Vidal Blanc is fruity, with grapefruit and pineapple notes. Due to its high acidity and fruitiness it is particularly suited to sweeter, dessert wines. With a tough outer skin of the fruit, it is well adapted for the production of ice wine.
Ice Wine is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape must o be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine.
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