IN a first for Western Australia, a south-west winery has created its own version of Canadian ice wine.
Wilyabrup-based Fraser Gallop Estate converted many who had previously shunned dessert wines with its 2013 Ice Pressed Chardonnay at the Margaret River Gourmet Escape festival over the weekend.
The wine-making process involves freezing whole bunches of Chardonnay grapes, which allows only the most concentrated sugars to be pressed out.
The juice is then fermented with indigenous yeasts in French oak barrels, producing a wine that balances sweetness with a crisp acidity.
It was created by Clive Otto, who won the prestigious Decanter World Wine Award in 2009 for the best Bordeaux red blend, and the young Kate Morgan, who is winning praise for her own label "Ipso Facto".
It is believed ice wine was first made in Roman times, then in Germany in 1794 and in Canada in 1972.
It's a risky business, because the grapes might rot on the vine before the frost comes, while many hands are needed to pick the whole crop within a matter of hours - on short notice - when temperatures have plunged to just the right level.
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