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The Wines of the Finger Lakes : STANDING STONE 2007 VIDAL ICE
If you were to ask a wine aficionado which Finger Lakes wine has been rated 90 points by Wine Spectator the most times, he or she would probably suggest a Riesling from one of the region’s pioneering wineries of the Sixties and Seventies. The correct answer, however, would be the Standing Stone Vidal Ice.
Standing Stone winery was founded in 1991 by Tom and Marti Macinski with historic vineyards previously owned by Gold Seal. The first crush was two years later, and in 1995 they produced a mere fifty cases of their first Vidal Ice. Patterned after the great eisweins of Germany, it was a luscious dessert wine made from Vidal grapes that were picked after being frozen on the vine. Vidal, a hybrid grape developed in France, is well-suited to the production of dessert wines. Even when fully ripe, it maintains the good acidity needed for balance in a sweet wine.
— Dave Pohl
Dave Pohl, MA ’79, is a wine buyer at Northside Wine & Spirits in Ithaca.
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