While some fear the long and frigid winter, ice white wine makers delight in perfect wine making conditions when the temperature drops.Dave Breeden, a winemaker at Sheldrake Point Winery in Ovid, says ice red wine grapes require to be gathered when the temperature level is between 12 and 15 degrees, according to Post Standard– Upstate.
Sheldrake Point’s latest ice red wine offering is their first-ever kosher red wine made from Gewürztraminer grapes.There are more
than a dozen wineries in upstate New York making ice wine.
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