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What goes into making the best ice wine, be it from Canada or Germany

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The wine that put Canada on the map – ice wine – is also made in Europe, primarily in Germany, where it known as eiswein. Rare and expensive, these wines are usually sold in small, slender bottles. The production of ice wine is different from that of other sweet wines, which get their concentration from botrytis, or “noble rot”, the result of leaving grapes on the vines to shrivel and acquire mouldiness. For ice wines, instead of being picked when ripe the grapes are...

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