{"id":9720,"date":"2021-05-16T20:18:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T18:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/?p=9720"},"modified":"2021-07-08T22:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T20:18:32","slug":"a-unique-icewine-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/a-unique-icewine-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"A unique Icewine Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Icewine is wine produced from grapes that have been naturally frozen while still on the vine in the Canadian Niagara Peninsula.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not just wine, it&#8217;s Icewine!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing for a more concentrated grape juice to develop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The icewine grapes\u2019 must is pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, luscious luxury sweet wine with intense flavors. Only healthy grapes keep in good shape until the opportunity arises for an ice wine harvest.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Icewine production is limited to the world\u2019s wine-growing regions where the necessary cold sub zero temperatures can be expected to be reached with some regularity. Canada and Germany are the world\u2019s largest producers of ice wines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About 75 percent of the ice wine produced in Canada comes from Ontario. The pioneer status of the Inniskillin winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, came from their first ice wine, produced in 1984, often being mentioned as Canada\u2019s first ice wine. Inniskillin Icewine is well renowned as the world leader in Icewine production and supply. It is sold in over 74 countries and is the #1 distributed wines in Global Travel Retail. It can be found around the world on the wine lists of famous restaurants and hotels, in collector\u2019s cellars and on many major airlines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9724\" src=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1150\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-192x108.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-384x216.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-364x205.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-728x410.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-561x315.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-1122x630.jpg 1122w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-758x426.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/144689793_267069654977083_5325650651494092545_n-608x342.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Icewine was first made by the Germans, where it is called Eiswein. The original concept for German Eiswein was the result of an unexpected frost during the winter of 1794, when Franconian peasants tried to produce wine from semi-frozen grapes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>More than 200 years later, Icewine is celebrated as a specialty wine offering a tantalizing and complex sensory experience and now available in South Africa to purchase online:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/icewineafrica.com\/store\/\"><strong>IceWine Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngf.co.za\/search?q=icewine\"><strong>NGF<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Place your order today to try something new!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9725\" src=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1019\" height=\"1019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-384x384.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-220x220.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-561x561.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-999x999.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-758x758.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/175667119_319555043061877_3628704258268554616_n-608x608.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1019px) 100vw, 1019px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icewine is wine produced from grapes that have been naturally frozen while still on the vine in the Canadian Niagara Peninsula. It&#8217;s not just wine, it&#8217;s Icewine! The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing for a more concentrated grape juice to develop. The icewine grapes\u2019 must is pressed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9726,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions\/9726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}