Via Joe D’Aleo at ICECAP
Team Vinicola Perico, Vinicola Vineyards in Santa Catarina, Brazil
Our friends at the METSUL reports that for the first time ever in Brazil icewine has been produced in this unusually cold June in Southern Brazil. This is a release on the Vinicolo Vineyard website. The following is a rough web based translation from Portuguese to English. The original Portuguese story is here.
With pleasure we inform that the Perico team yesterday registered in its vineyards, located in the farm Boy God, District of the Perico in Joaquin – Santa Catarina, a phenomenon of the nature, the most waited of this time: the ice wine. The temperatures had fallen well below-freezing and the thermometers had marked – 7.5 C. A dream if became reality: the harvest of the grapes congealed for this so wonderful act of the nature.
With this, the Vinicola Perico, will be first ever vineyard in Brazil to produce ICEWINE (Wine of the Ice), a natural licoroso wine, with raised amount of residual sugar of the proper grape.
The process of production of the Icewine, consists of mature grapes and extreme cold at-6 C, in this condition, the water that if find in the interior of the berries of the grapes congeal and the ice separates the rich juice in sugar. When the grapes are just right, they’re carefully picked by hand. Grapes in this condition have a very low yield – often an entire vine only makes a single bottle. That’s why ice wine can be so expensive and is often sold in half-bottles only … but it’s worth it! After this long harvest process, the grapes go through weeks of fermentation, followed by a few months of barrel aging in new barrels of French oak, Allier forest. The wine ends up a golden color, or a deep, rich amber. It has a very sweet (of course) taste. After vinificado we will have the pleasure to present this great BRAZILIAN only ICEWINE, which happens in Austria, Germany, north of Italy and Canada. See photos of our vineyard to the dawn, before and after the sun rose. More photos on home page.. More photos on home page.
We have posted stories on how this cold spring has caused agricultural problems in many locations worldwide. See this post . See David Archibald’s post originally on Icecap in which he forecasted these agricultural issues reposted with comments on Watts Up With That here. See Bloomberg post on spring wheat concerns in Canada due to a very cold May. See more on Spring in Canada here
Despite all these anecdotal evidences of global cooling, NOAA announced May 2009 was the 4th warmest in 130 years of record keeping (and manipulation) with an anomaly of +0.53C just a week after the University of Alabama using the NASA MSU satellite data assessed the global anomaly at just +0.043C, making it the 15th coldest in 31 years. Anthony and I will surely have more to say on this unlikely divergence soon.
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I have never heard of icewine. Am looking forward to seeing it in the shops!
How about sending a bottle each to Gore, Hansen and Schmidt?
I see that Ft. Meyers Florida is about the same latitude north as Santa Catarina, Brazil, is south latitude. Santa Catarina topography is not the same, of course, but it is only about 46 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. Wonder what the ocean currents are like off shore from Santa Catarina.
Jimmy Haigh (08:01:38) :
How about sending a bottle each to Gore, Hansen and Schmidt?
Sod that, send ’em to me instead. I’ll post them the empties. :o)
Amazing but just the southern hemisphere reflection of northern hemisphere Solar Minimum Climate (post on USA and Canada weather) and what happened in Napa Valley, California.
It is good to remember also that droughts are already present in the argentinian pampas (fields) where the main crops are wheat and soybean.
For the known argentinian geologist Miguel Gonzales, in his studies in the “Salinas del bebedero”, a salt lake in Argentina.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m11m129238u61484/
all these weather changes coincide with solar minimums like the Maunder minimum , which produced drought in the argentinian “pampa” (plains), and which it is happening again now. So, in general, we have different weather systems: one west of the andes and the other east of the andes.
This will be a kind of proof of studies and forecasting because according to Gonzales, the “salinas del bebedero” (dried salt lakes) will fill again with water as has happened during the last minimums (Maunder, Sporer,etc)
In spanish: http://www.giurfa.com/salinas.pdf
We are witnessing the repetition of the same conditions.
They’ll soon drink the first ever ice wine in Brazil because it was the 4th hottest month (globally) on recorder per NOAA? Is that why frost has damaged crops througout Canada and in Northern US states? Or Chicago’s had a cold summer so far? I’m confused.
Then there’s June gloom in SoCal that has rarely let up this year.
The May NOAA measurement has nothing to do with all those Stevenson screens sitting next to air conditioners or on an expanse of asphalt does it?
How does NOAA get away with such blatant misrepresentation?
How is the public so easily duped?
Wow, lots of stories and news reports of abnormal cold and snowy June, while leaders of many governments were busy talking how to “fight global warming” through carbon emission cuts. They just finished their meeting in Bonn, Germany June 1-12, this week they are in Manila, Philippines for the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) “high level dialogue on climate change in Asia and the Pacific”. Science and politics really cannot mix!
Now that is making lemonade outa lemons. It’s like saying frozen apples are better. In reality the amber colored center makes the apple unmarketable as fresh fruit so it goes to juice instead. They just haven’t figured out how to sell icejuice at a higher price. Apple growers need to get in touch with the advertising agents selling icewine. Vineyards work there BUTTS off trying to keep the grapes from freezing on the vine. Why? Frozen grapes are sweeter but loose their bouquet as a grape. Icewine is very sweet and because of that, does not allow the flavor of the grapes to touch the tongue. It is a marketing ploy that works on the uninitiated.
The key to waking up the govermental leaders is to make them walk to thier limos and helicopters. They are not getting out into the real world. They can also start fighting Global Warming Hypnotica in their offices by opening the window and turning the Thermostat off.
This is interesting, while the Bermuda high has come earlier this year to warm the Eastern states it is currently a no-show
http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=netweather&traveler=0&article=6
Also, we’re getting a variety of forecasts for tomorrow ranging from 103 from Intellicast to just 94 on Weather Underground. It’s a chance it’s just a guess as the high yesterday was 6 degrees above what was forecast.
Considering all the cold stories, UAH seems to agree (channel 5 showing temps. below the 20 year average)
I’ve had GREAT icewine out of Canada. Very good. Very strong. So beware.
If it gets any warmer, we’ll all freeze to death…..
rbateman (09:27:53) :
The key to waking up the govermental leaders is to make them walk to thier limos and helicopters. They are not getting out into the real world. They can also start fighting Global Warming Hypnotica in their offices by opening the window and turning the Thermostat off.
My guess is that they perfectly know about “global cooling” better than us, that is why they changed “global warming” to “climate change”. They don’t care about it, it’s plain business.
For the sophisticated, rich and smoked elites, it’s the New Age amusement to their boring lives, so they play the “green game”, daydream “A brave new world” and promote the breeding of rare spiders and mosquitoes….and all those unquotable and hence “snippable by the moderator” activities.
For the fool and the naive: It’s the end of the world!
For WUWT 15 million hits!!
OT: (but loosely relevent ) meant as a heads up.
LINK… http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/5656336/freak-beijing-storm-turns-day-into-night/
Dang ! I thought you said Rice Wine. I’m ready for some Sushi and Saki any time Anthony.
I once was witness to a half hour freak unseasonal hailstorm that wiped out my neighbor’s entire table grape crop for the year. Instead of a typical $23,000 annual income he made from selling those fine table grapes at a Santa Monica street fair; he got $700 from a brandy manufacturer for the few grapes he managed to save from the rot, with the help of some good neighbors.
In San Francisco Bay area; the local T&V weathermen simply said; “where did that come from”, and the natives slid their cars around on the street for a few minutes. For my neighbor it was another year of relying on their savings.
Ice wine no good; rice wine very good.
(sarcasm mode on) This is not fair. Canada is supposed to have a near monopoly on ice wine. Let us have some more warming please. (sarcasm mode off)
Global warming has also struck New Jersey in June.
We have had a lot of cool weather in NJ in June but hail is unusual.
http://wcbstv.com/local/washington.township.hail.2.1045714.html
Interesting, before we know it all this weather will starting adding up to climate.
http://wcbstv.com/local/washington.township.hail.2.1045714.html
By the way, if you are a home wine maker, you can do the same thing. Freeze the grapes first (any grapes cuz it don’t matter). They’ll be much sweeter. Than extract juice. The wine will be sweet but tasteless. And yes, the extra sugar makes it a bit headier. Makes a better spicy mulled wine for xmas than it does a cold tasteless after dinner wine.
Reply to Pamela Gray…
I had my first ice wine or eiswein when I moved to Germany in 1998. I thought it was fantastic. It is a really good dessert wine. One thing about eiswein is that when it is young a lot of the bouquet and fruit flavors are overwhelmed by the syrupy sweetness that is a product of the way it is made. The juice of the grapes is concentrated by freezing the water out. The quality of ice wines in general is extremely variable. The quality of the grapes before they were frozen matters just as much as in a normal wine plus the time of the year the freeze occurs, how hard the freeze is and so on.
One of the most interesting things about ice wine is how it ages. If you can store it properly the wine changes over time more than any other wine I am familiar with, with the possible exception of Beerenauslece and and TrockenBeerenauslese wines. As the wine ages it becomes darker in color and looses almost all of its syrupy sweetness allowing the essence of the grape to reemerge.
Re: Don Shaw (11:55:50) :
I was aware of the storms in NJ and thought of mentioning them. Perhaps I should have.
In hindsight I probably should have posted the information in the The Thermostat Hypothesis thread since hail is a sign of strong updrafts. The surface winds of 104 MPH with the storm in China, to me, also indicates extreme vertical activity.
If you can show me a wine that I will allow to age, I will show you a significant other who put it in a locked cellar and threw away the key.
Pamela:
The grapes need to still be on the vine. The cold causes the grape vines to produce a lot more sugar, which is transferred to the grapes.
By the way, did you get the advertising gimmick of “natural” freezing somehow being better than jus’ stickin the fruit in the ol’ frig? A naturally frozen grape is far more dicey than freezing them in controlled environments. But it makes no difference how you do it. The freezer or the weather will result in the same process, the sugar coming out of the closet so to speak. It’s all in how you spin it and sell it isn’t it. Reminds me of another topic we occasionally talk about here. Yes?
Funny you should mention 100 MPH winds in China, just yesterday a neigboring county reported winds of over 80 MPH with a massive storm and hail in some areas up to 3 inches.
At least that sort of stuff is over for a while it seems, the rest of the week is supposed to be dry especially with the stationary front starting to move out.