Icewine Harvest Underway

Thursday, 6 January 2022 05:43

By Tami Jeanneret

Photo courtesy of Joe Pillitteri and the Ontario Grape Growers

Grape growers harvesting "liquid gold" as temperature plummets

It’s that time of year again for Ontario grape growers.

The icewine harvest is underway as temperatures dip well below freezing.

The Grape Growers of Ontario pointing on its social media pages “When temperatures dip to -8ºC (or lower) the frozen grapes are picked — sometimes by machine & sometimes by hand — and pressed immediately to carefully release a thick, rich, yellow-gold liquid, highly concentrated in natural sugars and acidity.”

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Icewine Harvest Underway

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