stackyFACTSExtreme weather makes for incredibly expensive dessert. To produce authentic ice wine, grapes must be left on the vine until a hard frost freezes the water inside them. Pressing these frozen marbles extracts only the super-concentrated sugar syrup, severely limiting the yield and skyrocketing the price.
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