Taste it Again / Lost & Found
Taste It Again: Inniskillin 2006 Sparkling Vidal Icewine
27 Sep 2014- Details
- Category: Lost & Found / Taste it Again
Click here to read the original review
(August 14, 2014) ... For those of you with a mind to age ice wine keep this in mind: the sparkling stuff may not age as sparkling. What I mean by that follows.
I had my in-laws in from Michigan, my mother-in-law is a slut for the sweet stuff, so when she is here I open my annual bottles of Icewine. This time I thought to open something special, like an Inniskillin 2006 Sparkling Icewine ... She claims not to like bubbles in her wine and I was about to prove her wrong. But alas once I removed the cage and wiggled the cork out of the neck, instead of a pop of the cork there was barely a sputtering 'phft'. I poured it into a small glass and to my horror it was flat, no bubbles whatsoever. That does not mean my mother in law had to suffer through, she was quite happy to have no fizz. The resulting wine came off as no more than a still Icewine, and an aged one at that: caramelized and slightly oxidized fruit such as apricot, peach and apple ... but it still lacked the fizz to make it truly special.
