“From a happy accident in 18th-century Germany to world-class winemaking in Niagara, Canada’s icewine story is one of innovation, endurance, and a little winter magic.
Long before it became a Canadian icon alongside maple syrup and poutine, icewine began as a delicious mistake — born not from a winemaker’s plan, but from a winter frost that caught German farmers off guard in the 1700s. Not wanting to lose their entire grape harvest, they pressed the frozen grapes, creating icewine as we know it — or “eiswein” as they originally called it…”
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