One of Canada's most famous world exports will be celebrated here at home, with an icewine tasting event Saturday at the LCBO Roundhouse Centre store at 3165 Howard Ave.
The store will offer tasting-sized samples from noon to 4 p.m., along with an area chefs' competition for the best dessert match with the sweet wine and an artists' challenge, too.
Area artists will decorate icewine bottles that will be raffled off and proceeds will benefit the John Atkinson Memorial Fund in support of the Special Olympics.
Store customers can sample and vote on their favourite dessert as well as the artwork. Visitors can receive a grab bag with tasting tickets, ballots for voting, information on the artists and chefs and icewine information brochures. For information, contact the store at 519-972-1772.
Canada is the world's largest producer of icewine. Grapes are picked when temperatures drop below -8 C. Because the wine-making process must take place while grapes remain frozen, the actual icewine harvest often occurs in the middle of the night.
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The Icewines produced in the Niagara region are simply fantastic. Everyone who reads this should find a way to get some. Of course, the best way is to visit the wineries.
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