What you need to know about ice wine, New York's wintry nectar
From one of the country's most-prolific wine-producing states comes one of the country's rarest wine styles. The state is New York, and the style - ice wine - results in mere drops of liquid per year, relative to traditional table wines nationwide.
The grapes used to make this pour rely on arctic weather to bring out their sweet, summery flavors, which means that California, the nation's wine behemoth, has little chance of catching this East Coast contender in a race. Not that California is even trying - it can't.
