Discover the top 100 best sweet wines of Niagara Peninsula of Niagara Peninsula as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the sweet wines that are popular of Niagara Peninsula and the best vintages to taste in this region.
World reference for Icewine: concentrated sweet wines from grapes frozen on the vine, golden colour, signature notes of candied apricot, mango, honey, citrus and exotic fruit, high sugar balanced by lively acidity. 90% of Canadian Icewine (Vidal for fruit, Riesling for finesse). Cool-climate still wines: mineral Riesling, precise Chardonnay, fine Pinot Noir, peppery Cabernet Franc. Southern shores of Lake Ontario.
VQA, 5,200 ha.
Aromatic, structured whites with firm acidity preserved at full ripeness, featuring aromas of citrus, pineapple, mango, apricot, honey and muscat notes. Absolute star of Canadian Icewines (Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia) where thick-skinned berries survive on the vine through frost, yielding rich liquoreux with exotic fruit and honey aromas. Also made as dry and semi-sweet whites in the northeastern United States. French hybrid created in 1930 by Jean-Louis Vidal (Ugni Blanc × Rayon d'Or).
sweet wines from the region of Niagara Peninsula go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of shoulder of suckling lamb confit with herbs, peasant minestrone or rabbit, cabbage, bacon.
On the nose in the region of Niagara Peninsula often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, pineapple or cream and sometimes also flavors of cherry, grapefruit or oaky. In the mouth in the region of Niagara Peninsula is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
