Pillitteri Icewine is a unique tasting experience with flavours that can range from honeyed peach and apricot to more tropical fruit like mangos.
Pillitteri Estates, takes great pride in producing Icewine within the strict VQA standards — a recognition of the highest level of quality attainable.
Pillitteri Estates Icewine has been recognized at wine competitions throughout the world, earning some of the most prestigious awards in the industry.
Icewine: Intensely sweet and indulgent
This sweet dessert wine, traditionally made with white grapes, is now also made with red varieties, each with its own unique character. The grapes stay on the vine through autumn and dry into raisins. As winter arrives, the freeze-thaw cycle further dehydrates them,...
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Gold is Made in the Cold
Debbie Trenholm Savvy Company How does Icewine differ from other wines? Throughout the growing season, winemakers decide which grapes to leave on the vines long after the regular harvest is complete and wait for Mother Nature to turn them into gold - icewine grapes...
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Icewine Recipe: Icewine Crème Brûlée (Egg-Free)
Icewine Crème Brûlée (Egg-Free) Courtesy of: Anna Olsen Food Network Serves 6 This version of crème brûlée is not cooked using eggs, but instead uses the acidity of Icewine, a very sweet dessert wine, to set the cream. Because it is not baked, it can be beautifully...
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2014 Niagara Icewine Festival – My Review
By:Jason Solanki Published: January 23rd, 2014 http://vintagewinepicks.blogspot.ca/2014/01/2014-niagara-icewine-festival-my-review.html What an amazing two days! Last weekend, we enjoyed many Icewines and tasty culinary creations at 9 different wineries throughout...
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Icewine Recipes: Poached Pear Infused with Pillitteri Vidal Icewine
Poached Pear with Icewine? This is delicious! Ingredients (serves 4) 3 cups water 1 cup (firmly packed) brown sugar ½ cup Pillitteri Estates Vidal Icewine 2 x cinnamon sticks roughly broken 2 large, just ripe bosc pears, peeled, cored and cut in half 4 1inch x 1inch...
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Pillitteri Estates Winery Completes Their Largest Icewine Harvest
Published by: Wines in Niagara Rick VanSickle January 3rd, 2014 Pillitteri Estates Winery completed their largest ever harvest of icewine grapes during a wild New Year’s winter storm. A record icewine harvest for Pillitteri, which began in early December kicked in...
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A record year for BC Icewine
By John Schreiner Here’s hoping that consumers still have a taste for something sweet: British Columbia’s winemakers are likely to produce about 300,000 litres of Icewine. This is double from the 2012 production. Some 29 producers have registered to turn 1,000 tons of...
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Market for icewines heats up
The Vancouver Sun By: Michelle Locke November 20th, 2013 Leaving grapes to freeze on the vine seems like a recipe for stone cold failure. But under the right conditions, the grapes that come in from the (extreme) cold can produce delicious dessert wines that are a...
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Best Ways to Enjoy Icewine
Love Icewine but have a hard time wondering what to pair it with? Pillitteri has you covered, providing several suggestions on what to have with Icewine. Icewine is incredibly versatile, pairing nicely with a variety of foods and snacks. The only thing we do not...
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Pillitteri Estates Winery is proud to produce one of nature's most exquisite gifts -- Icewine.
Pillitteri Estates Icewine has been recognized at wine competitions throughout the world, earning some of the most prestigious awards in the industry.