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You savor the moment and decide you
are in love. You want to marry this wine—
which is just as well, for it can keep for up
to 10 years. You sit back and plan the eve-
ning ahead: dinner in the lovely winery
restaurant and then a night in its luxury
hotel across the road, Inn on the Twenty.
What do you say?
Cave Spring Cellars,
3836 Main St.,
Jordan (
&
905/562-3581;
www.cavespring
cellars.com).
(
Toronto (134km/83 miles).
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$$$
Inn on the Twenty,
3845 Main
St. (
&
905/562-8728;
www.innonthe
twenty.com). $$
Jordan House,
3751
Main St. (
&
905/562-1607;
www.jordan
house.ca).
Canada
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Inniskillin
Breaking the Ice
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
Inniskillin Icewine is a modern marketing
phenomenon. The best-selling wine prod-
uct in duty-free stores around the world, it
outsells champagne and port as the most
desired wine gift. Everybody wants to get
his hands on this intensely sweet and com-
plex wine—it is a luxury good that rolls off
shelves like water rolls off those famous
falls 20 minutes from the winery. It sells
from New York to Beijing; in fact, it's so
popular in Asia that this Canadian winery is
one of the few in the world that conducts
daily tours in Japanese. Such is its popular-
ity that counterfeiters have muscled in and
now pass off an inferior product as the real
thing with alarming regularity—in markets
such as Taiwan, it is calculated that 50% of
all Canadian ice wine sold is fake.
Imitation is the best form of flattery.
Other signature wines, such as Australian
Shiraz or Oregon Pinot Noir, do not have
the same problem with pirate winemakers
working from dingy backstreet garages.
Indeed, the issue has become a major
headache for the Canadian wine industry,
for it affects its sales and tarnishes its qual-
ity image.
Ice wine grapes from Inniskillin, in Niagara-on-
the-Lake, Ontario.
