subject: An Insight Into The Niagara Icewine Festival [print this page] Niagara Ontario has always attracted tourists from across the world to celebrate its popular winter wine festival, normally held in the month of January. Frozen grapes of Niagara region are used to produce the sweetest dessert wine. A one hour drive around the on the lake Niagara region is worth enjoying. So, if you havent visited the area yet, plan a trip during the January icewine festival. Festivities normally start by 11th January. Public events are held on the main streets and they continue till the end of January.
You can find large tents where you can taste all the three types of wines i.e. Icewine, table wine and sparkling wine. Most of the prominent wineries participate in these events. You can also have access to wonderful gourmet meals at food stations with matching wines. These stations are organized by local wine restaurants. In the festival area, you will have plenty of fun in the form of music, food and wines.
The outdoors are decorated so beautifully that you would gasp in this chilly winter. Tents not only provide shelter from the freezing cold, as heat is pumped in there; they also display the finest wines of the region at surprisingly low price along with food. You will get a unique chance to taste around as much as 90 varieties of icewine here at a single spot.
Thats the reason that a brief visit of this area during the icewine festival gives you a very good glimpse of the flourishing wine industry in Canada. Icewine Ontario is made in a unique way to offer you the taste that you always cherished. The wine makers wait throughout the fall and collect the grapes when they are frozen in the vineyards by the end of the fall. This way not only we get the most ripened grapes, we also get it when its sugar content is highest.
The freezing temperature in the Niagara Ontario region freezes all the juice and water content of grapes and all that is left inside is ice and sugar. A very small quantity of juice is extracted from these frozen grapes and it contains certain flavor, sugar and some acid. The slightly higher acidic content helps it taste better. It also helps you clear your mouth of the sticky or sea food. Hybrid Vidal is the variety of grape that is grown in Niagara wine region. But wines wines such as the whites Riesling and Gewrztraminer use another variety of grape and that is vinefera.
