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Fine Canadian Wines To Russia and the CIS

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Focus on Canadian Icewines

The Cuvée Collection

Imagine, 41 of Canada's foremost winemakers get together to choose the very finest in wines.  That's Cuvée! 

Cuvée is held every year in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada in February. For more details, see the Cuvée website

VinoCanada is proud to represent Gold Medal winners from the last two years' Cuvée competitions in the Icewine category.  Here are the finest of the finest Vidal Icewines in the world, as chosen by the crafters that built them.  

 

  • Reif Winery Vidal Icewine
    2008 Cuvée Award Winner
    2007 Cuvée Award Winner, Best Sweet Wine, GOLD
    2006 Cuvée Gold Award
     

  • Birchwood Estate Wines Vidal Icewine
    2007 Cuvée Wine Awards Gold Medal

  • Birchwood Estate Wines Cabernet Franc Icewine
    2006     Cuvée Gold Award
     

  • EastDell Winery Vidal Icewine
    2006 Cuvée Wine Awards - Best Dessert Wine & Gold Medal Winner,
     

  • Pillitteri Estates Vidal Icewine
     2006 Cuvée Wine Awards - Gold Medal
     

  • Vineland Estates Winery Vidal Icewine

    2007 Cuvée Gold Award

  

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News and Articles

2007 Canadian Icewine Harvest: “Excellent Quality, Average Quantity” - Perfect!

“The 2007 Icewine will be the one that everybody looks for”. Charlie Pillitteri at Pillitteri Winery looks over the now empty vineyards with a sense of satisfaction.  The harvest started on the night January 3 when the temperature plunged to -11 degrees Celsius for the third night in a row, crystallizing the body of the grape and bringing the sweetness up to about 40 brix, well above the minimum required to earn the title “Canadian Icewine”. <more>

Caviar: Next Time, Think Icewine, instead of Champagne!

Six of the world’s top sommeliers gathered in a post restaurant in Moscow last spring, to come to a decision on the best wine to enjoy with Caviar.  The event is told at the restaurant’s website and is a great one for Icewine and Caviar lovers!

Vladimir Bassov, Anton Panasenko, Pavel Shvets, Jan Skopkin, four of Russia’s top sommeliers,  were joined by sommeliers Markus Del Monego <more>

 

 

Scenes from the Icewine Harvest

Clockwise from upper left:
  • Waiting for the right conditions
  • The beginning and end
  • A lonely vineyard after the harvest
  • Klaus Reif samples the juice
  • The juice flows, sweet and thick
  • It is frosty work picking the grapes so late and by hand!

 

 
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