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Vidal Ice wine by Peller Estates in Ontario. Vidal blanc (or simply Vidal) is a white hybrid grape variety produced from the Vitis vinifera variety Ugni blanc (also known as Trebbiano Toscano) and another hybrid variety, Rayon d'Or (Seibel 4986).
The first ice wine produced by Inniskillin, a 1984 Vidal, was in fact labelled "Eiswein". The initial production consisted of white and red table wines, but another significant development started a few years later. In 1983, Karl Kaiser and three other Ontario wineries all left grapes on their vines in an attempt to produce ice wine, in order ...
The international breakthrough of Canadian icewine came in 1991, when Inniskillin's 1989 Vidal icewine won the Grand Prix d'Honneur at Vinexpo. [9] The Canadian trend towards increased cultivation of Vitis vinifera (European) grape varieties in the 1990s expanded the palette of varieties available to be bitten by frost.
Their most well-known accomplishment was winning the coveted Grand prix d'honneur at Vinexpo, France in 1989 for the Inniskillin Vidal icewine. Ziraldo would be the man to create an internationally recognized Canadian wine category with Icewine. [ 5 ]
The VQA label on a bottle of Canadian icewine. Vintners Quality Alliance, or VQA, is a regulatory and appellation system which guarantees the high quality and authenticity of origin for Canadian wines made under that system in British Columbia and Ontario. It is similar to regulatory systems in France , Spain , Italy , and Germany . The VQA ...
A Swedish wine from Scania, produced from Solaris grapes grown on flint soil. A Swedish Vidal ice wine.. Swedish wine, in terms of wine produced commercially from grapes grown in Sweden, is a very marginal but growing industry which saw its first beginnings in the late 1990s.