HTM 4050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sauvignon Blanc, Vin Santo, Ice Wine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Course: HTM 4050
• Professor: Melissa Pulvermacher

Document Summary

Common to almost every grape growing region. Sweet wines where sugar content in grape is managed. Expensive because of high cost of production. Ex. icewine in ontario, sauternes** in bordeaux, vin santo in tuscany. Styles include: botrytis affected (ba, late harvest, icewine/eiswein, vin doux naturel (vdn, passito (appassimento) made from dried grapes. Referred to as noble rot" in the old world. Picked berry by berry in most cases. Most famous sauternes made from the semillion, sauvignon blanc and muscadelle. Sauterne is made in graves, region of bordeaux. Also tokay aszu from hungary, tokaj if the wine region; six indigenous grape varietals allowed to make this. Grapes left on the vine past being ripe, begin to shrivel like raisins. Grapes naturally dehydrate on vine (usually riesling) 8 celcius, pressed when still frozen, no less than 35 brix. Icewine is #1 in ontario protected by vqa. Occur when grape spirit is added to the must (mutage)