Winexpert Après 2025 Riesling Icewine Style Wine Making Kit 8L (Limited)

2025 Après Riesling Icewine Style Wine Making Kit 8L (Limited)

SKU:
LR005-NZZZ8261-25
Width:
10.00 (in)
Height:
14.00 (in)
Depth:
10.00 (in)
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RIESLING ICEWINE STYLE

Peach, honey, sweet citrus, marmalade.

Our most-loved icewine style is back! Discover the elegance of our Riesling Icewine Style, inspired by the tradition of crafting wines from naturally frozen grapes. This sweet, intensely concentrated wine features a luxurious medley of ripe peach, golden honey, zesty sweet citrus, and a hint of marmalade. The process enhances the grapes’ natural sugars and acidity, resulting in a perfectly balanced wine with a velvety texture and vibrant fruit-forward notes.

Serve chilled and enjoy on its own, or serve alongside creamy cheesecake, a cheese plate featuring toasted nuts and honey drizzle, or mix with vodka and garnish with frozen grapes for an Icewine Martini.

Aging: Best enjoyed within three months, though it will age beautifully if you can resist it.

Food Pairings: Perfect for desserts or special occasions, it pairs wonderfully with creamy cheesecake, a cheese platter with toasted nuts and honey drizzle, or can be elevated into an Icewine Martini with vodka and frozen grape garnish. Serve chilled to fully appreciate its rich, layered sweetness and fruit-forward complexity.

Details:

  • Kit Volume: 8L of juice (2.11 US gallons)
  • Aging: 6 weeks from box to bottle
  • Yield: Makes 11.3L (3 US gallons) of finished wine, ~12-15 750ml Bottles
  • Wine Color: Red
  • Includes: Bottle labels
  • ABV Yield When Made: ~17%
  • Body: Full
  • Oak: Medium
  • Sweetness: Sweet
Ice wine is expensive due to the extremely low yield of concentrated juice per grape, requiring far more grapes for one bottle compared to regular wine. The labor-intensive process involves harvesting frozen grapes by hand at night, an all-natural risk of pests and weather, and a lengthy fermentation period. These significant production challenges and risks lead to a luxury product with high costs, often sold in smaller half-bottle sizes. 
 
Why is Icewine Expensive
Factors Contributing to High Cost
 
One of the reasons ice wine is so coveted is its exceptional aging potential. Thanks to its high sugar content and balanced acidity, properly stored ice wine can develop even more complex flavors over time. Some bottles can be enjoyed for decades, making them a prized addition to any wine cellar.
  • Low Yield:
    Frozen grapes yield very little juice because the water content remains frozen, resulting in extremely low volumes of concentrated sweet juice. 
     
  • High Grape Volume:
    It takes several times more grapes to produce a single bottle of ice wine than it does for a standard wine. 
     
  • Labor-Intensive Harvest:
    Grapes are harvested by hand in the middle of the night or early morning, only when temperatures are below freezing, which is a difficult, time-sensitive, and cold process. 
     
  • Natural Risks:
    Leaving grapes on the vine for extended periods to freeze exposes them to threats from birds, wildlife, rot, and unpredictable weather, which can completely destroy a harvest. 
     
  • Lengthy & Arduous Winemaking:
    The fermentation process for ice wine is significantly longer than for regular wines, requiring extensive monitoring and investment. 
     
  • Geographic Limitations:
    The requirement for consistently cold winter temperatures restricts ice wine production to only certain regions, such as Canada and Germany, further limiting its supply. 
     
  • Luxury Product:
    The combination of these challenges creates a rare and sought-after luxury item, leading to a premium price for the final product.

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