Ice Wine

I'll be leaving to Canada tomorrow, and I was just wondering what do you think about all these places? I've never been to Canada before, and this will be my first time, and these will be some of the places I'll be going to while I'm there, so I was wondering how they are

Old Town Vancouver
(Gastown, Queen Elizabeth Park, Stanley Park, Expo86)

Howe Sound Bay - Whistler.

Taking a ferry to Vancouver Island and go to Butchart Gardens.

Kamploops for famouse Ginseng Production?

Glacier National Park
(to see "The Last Spike" and "Roger's Pass)

Natural Bridge

Peyto Lake and Bow Falls then Colombia Icefield

Lake Louise + Morine Lake

Then to Kelowna for the "Ice Wine"

I don't know any of these places but I know most of them are all nature places and not really going into the citie, but I enjoy nature So let me know what you think of some of these places if you know anything. Your opinions will be much appriciated. Thank you.

Kamloops has an excellent world class spa, they use gingseng products. I havent been there myself but have heard good things about it. see link below

Kamloops is the tournamet capital of BC or is it Canada? There are some nice parks, music in the park in the evenings in the summer - lots of great golf courses. An hours drive takes you to Shuswap lakes, and thats really a nice area. Closer are Paul Lake and Lac Le Jeune lake. Water slides and a zoo east of the city.

Ice wine is really sweet, best to eat chocolates and drink it. Thats a real treat. Kelowna has some great beaches, have you arranged a winery tour? Peach cheese cake, hmmmmm

The ferry ride is spectacular, watch for whales and dolphins, you can sit outside in the sun, its a ship actually so enjoy your cruise. It takes about two hours. Dont believe the signs on the freeway that say ferries 30 kilometers, you will find it takes you an hour to get there. There are often waits for sailings, try to sail on weekdays - and avoid holidays and Friday evening.

Buchart Gardens can be dry in the late summer, watering restrictions. There is so much to take in and see in Victoria, be sure and go down to the Inner Harbour and Parliament bldgs.

Too bad you dont have more time on Vancouver Island, there are spectacular beaches, Long beach is 20 miles of white sand. Miracle beach is pretty spectacular too, Cathedral Grove, its a great place for a holiday. We went sailing on the tell ship The Dorian, it was $30 and we were out for close to 4 hours, a wonderful experience.

Whistler is IMO a money grab but thats my opinion.

If you are driving you will find the highway from Whistler to Lillooet and on to Cache Creek a tad nerve racking. FYI the speed limit is 80 not 40 kph.

If you go that way Pavilion Lake is an amazing colour but I am a bit leery about the "mysterious microbes" found in the lake that arent found anywhere else on earth - who knows what they could do to you? Marble canyon, some amazing scenery there.

Glacier National Park is great, Lake Louise is beautiful, scenery on the Rogers Pass is beautiful. If you stop in Salmon Arm to eat go down to Ricks, which overlooks a wetlands, bird sanctuary - coming that way you go right past the Shuswap lakes, you turn off at the Squilax bridge and drive about 40 minutes, Captains Marine you can rent seados and it has a nice restaurant, swimming is free, thats where I go. Scotch Creek is a provincial campground and the last time I was there they charged for parking.

While there you might want to check out indian pit house.

If you would like to see photos of some of these areas in BC email me, I have thousands on My Space

I heard once that "ice wine" is what you call a desert wine because you serve it chilled. Its very sweet flavorful wine and I love it. I just cant FIND IT. I tried it at the Epcot food and wine festival at Disney World. Every year I buy a bottle, then its gone and no where to be found again until the next festival. Help!

no. dessert wine can be anything sweet. "ice wine" is a specificallly brewed wine. Ice Wine or Icewine or Eiswein was first developed in Germany, is a wine created by allowing grapes to freeze on the vine. The grapes are picked while frozen, and the resulting wine is fruity, complex, sweet and delicious.Grapes were left on the vines until the first deep frost, and the freeze/thaw cycles that occurred concentrated both the sugars and flavors of the grapes. The process was refined, and now icewines are highly prized drinks. it has to be pressed while the grapes are still frozen, so it takes ALOOOOT of them to make a bottle of the wine. that's why it's so expensive. I learned this from the thirsty traveler, although i copied alot of my above info from the chiptin website. enjoy, it sounds delicious!

how to serve ice wine?

Just re-cork it and refrigerate it. We generally have a dessert wine in the fridge, Ice wine or Noble wine or Muscat. Unlike other answerers responded wine with high residual sugars last quite well for many days even weeks after opening.

Ice wine is served in 2 ounce portions in small liquor or sherry glasses. Although recently attempts have been made to design a glass to showcase the uniqueness of icewines any small glass will do. A single serving after a meal with a coffee and dessert in just perfect. No need for seconds.

i am located in Philippines. i am wondering where i could purchase ice wine, whether within the country or online with shipping to the Philippines. Inniskillin or magnotta is preferred.

http://www.internetwines.com/wines-dessertwine-ice.html

In Canada, they can't call it ice wine unless strict temperature criteria are met throughout harvest and pressing. In a particularly bad vintage in Sauternes, if botryitis fails to occur, can the chateaux still sell their wines as AOC Sauternes?

Sauternes AC wines need to contain botrysised grapes. The extent of the botrytis and the volume of grapes affected by it can vary however, depending on the vintage - this is why some vintages are better than others (and have a more fungal nose to them, or differing levels of sweetness).

If a wine doesn't meet the required levels of botrytis (although this is incredably rare nowadays, especially for the classified growths), it cannot be labeled as Sauternes. The wines can still be labeled as AC Bordeaux Blanc or, given the location of Sauternes, AC Graves.

Probably the most famous example of this is the dry wine produced by Chateau d'Yquem: Y'grec (French for the letter 'Y'). Nine times in the 20th century, d'Yquem decided that the quality was not consistant with their heritage, and declined to make a Sauternes, producing the Y'grec instead.

How do you serve Ice Wine? At What temperature? In what sort of glass? After a meal, with dessert? Or on its own?

Serving: In a dessert wine flute, or a smaller sauvingon blanc glass or fill 1/2 way up in a champagne flute.

Temperature: It is served chilled, however it is nice whe it warms up a bit to bring out the flavors more.

Timing Service. It's nice when it comes before the dessert. You will have a chance to enjoy it before the dessert arrives and it will accompany the dessert too.

I'm travelling to the Niagara-On-The-Lake area, and everyone, EVERYONE is telling me it's a must to get Ice Wine. Anyone have any recommendations?

Ice Wine is the speciality of Canada and is a unique wine. Drink it as a dessert wine and it's owesome.

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