{"id":14009,"date":"2017-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.invinic.com\/does-wine-freeze-even-if-i-put-it-in-a-freezer"},"modified":"2017-10-05T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T12:44:52","slug":"does-wine-freeze-even-if-i-put-it-in-a-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.invinic.com\/en\/does-wine-freeze-even-if-i-put-it-in-a-freezer","title":{"rendered":"Does Wine Freeze Even If I Put it in a Freezer?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sort of. Wine freezes at -6? to -9?, and commercially available freezers go as low as -18?. It\u2019s certainly doable. Yet the alcohol in the wine means that it still doesn\u2019t freeze as solidly or readily as water does, and so it would hold its shape only for a while in the freezer. Riesling ice<\/a> cubes are possible after some time in the deep freeze, but a Riesling ice sculpture wouldn\u2019t be. Even though it\u2019s true that wine does freeze, wine connoisseurs should know that freezing a bottle has its drawbacks.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ice wine is delicious. It\u2019s also not frozen, but rather, it\u2019s a liquid wine which is the product of grapes that froze on the vine and were harvested while still frigid. In fact, that\u2019s what makes it so tasty. Much of the frozen water stays in the wine press, while the flavour molecules seep out into the maceration tanks. The result is an incredibly concentrated dessert wine, which is also very rare. The grapes need warm growing conditions<\/a>, and then a shockingly cold harvest. As a result, it\u2019s only possible to make ice wine in the Niagara region of Canada, and in special years in Germany. Grab a bottle if you see one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Freezing wine is actually part of making good sparkling wine<\/a>. In any bottle made through the traditional method, there will be sediment made of dead yeast cells and fine particles of grape skin. To get these out of the bottle, it\u2019s very delicately turned upside down over a period of several months – getting just a little more vertical each day. This infuriating task is another reason it\u2019s more fun to drink wine than to make it. Finally, when the sediment is at the cap, the neck of the bottle is frozen, and they very quickly open the bottle to remove the plug of sediment. The process means that some wine will be lost, which is why champagne bottles traditionally had foil all around the neck. It stopped people seeing that they weren\u2019t getting a full bottle!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Don\u2019t panic! Those are called tartrate crystals, which are harmless, and their presence or removal does not affect the taste of your wine. They often appear in white wine<\/a> which hasn\u2019t been subject to \u2018cold stabalisation\u2019, which is just a process of removing those crystals before the wine is sold. The potassium bitartrate that causes them is an inert, natural residue of the winemaking process.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n [cta_generico id=2584]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sort of. Wine freezes at -6? to -9?, and commercially available freezers go as low as -18?. It\u2019s certainly doable. Yet the alcohol in the wine means that it still doesn\u2019t freeze as solidly or readily as water does, and so it would hold its shape only for a while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to"],"yoast_head":"\nThree Issues with Freezing Wine:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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So What\u2019s All This I Hear About \u2018Ice Wine\u2019?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Does Wine Freeze In the Vineyard?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
I Froze or Chilled My Wine and Now There are Crystals at the Bottom<\/strong><\/h2>\n