FABULOUS sweet #LakeErie North Shore #icewine from #Canada: 2006 : http://tinyurl.com/3qjhotd

Wine name: Magnotta Vidal Icewine. Producer: Magnotta, 271 Chrislea Road, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, L4L 8N6. Vintage: 2006. Appearance: Perfect amber-golden colour, thick and very slow on the glass with honey, oranges, ripe apricot aromatics. The attack is an immediate zing which I initially took to be secondary fermentation, but in fact offsets the sweetness very nicely. Orangy. Evolution: Peach juice! Loads of it, the really thick kind. It's really nice and tastes nothing like wine at all! The orange has gone, but there's a nice gentle bite of acidity and it really fills the mouth. On the edge of the tongue there's caramely fudge. The effervescence makes it feel as if there's a slight asprin taste, but it's gone before you can find it with a finish which is peaches in the nose, fudge on the swallow. Sweetness: 5. Acidity: 2. Tannin: 0 with a texture which is the is the smoothest wine I've ever tasted – the texture is like drinking runny double cream, and the effervescence sparkles seductively all over the tongue like it's inviting you to bed. The length is excellent and very varied between oranges, peaches and fudge. As for balance, it's this would be over-sweet were it not for the sparkle. The wine is 9.1% abv. Overall, this wine is: Wow! This is up there with the best of them! Absolutely sublime, and I'm afraid it knocks the spots off any German Eiswein I've so far tasted, although in a slightly superficial, North American way. Very nice, not overpowered by sticky toffee pudding with creamy toffee sauce at all. This is a serious wine, yet one with a sense of fun about it too. Thanks, Mum & Dad! When are you off to Canada again?! Just the sweetness makes this absolutely outstanding! Res Sugar 36/23 brix. My score (which is NOT the same as Robert Parker's!) is 98 points. www.magnotta.com