Tonight, while waiting to watch Jack Bauer, my wife and I enjoyed a bottle of Lake Erie Ice Wine from the Firelands Winery in Sandusky, OH. Ice Wine (if you are not familiar with it) is a very sweet, intensely flavored wine, made from grapes left on the vine until the first frost.
Firelands Winery, one of our favorites, owes it’s unique name to the Revolutionary War. The Firelands region of north central Ohio was allotted to Connecticut citizens whose homes were burned by the British.
Firelands 2005 Ice Wine wins gold in 2007
Long Beach California Grand Cru – Chairman’s Award Double Gold
San Francisco International Wine Competition – Gold
Oakland Community College Great Lakes Wine Competition – Gold
Los Angeles, CA International – Bronze
