Ice Wine Harvest by locomouse
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Living here in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario means being surrounded (literally) by vineyards. Our yard gives onto three vineyards.. one to the north... one to the east and the other to the south. Across the road to the west, there is a 25 acre parcel of land for sale... the sign reads, "Ideal winery location"... so it's probably just a matter of time.
A few short years ago, no one had ever heard of ice wine. These days it is a very lucrative product. The grapes must freeze on the vines for three consectutive days at (at least) -8 degrees celsius. Then they are picked by hand in the middle of the night... the hired pickers usually gather at 3am... and maybe it's the extremely cold temperatures... or perhaps they drink alot of "antifreeze" beforehand... but it sounds like a party out there... ;)
This is my attempt to capture the harvest in a fractal sense. UF with sig in PSP. Thanks so much for all of your gracious comments on my previous efforts... and for stopping by to have a look at this one. Hugs! Helen :)
A few short years ago, no one had ever heard of ice wine. These days it is a very lucrative product. The grapes must freeze on the vines for three consectutive days at (at least) -8 degrees celsius. Then they are picked by hand in the middle of the night... the hired pickers usually gather at 3am... and maybe it's the extremely cold temperatures... or perhaps they drink alot of "antifreeze" beforehand... but it sounds like a party out there... ;)
This is my attempt to capture the harvest in a fractal sense. UF with sig in PSP. Thanks so much for all of your gracious comments on my previous efforts... and for stopping by to have a look at this one. Hugs! Helen :)
Comments (25)
DreamersWish
Wow it does sound cold! I guess they need to take a nip of some of it to stay warm. A very lushious(?) and rich looking image! Well done!
barbdennist
What an interesting lesson and what a beautiful fractal. I had never heard of ice wine so did a search for it on Google and did some reading. Your fractal portrays it very well.
FractaliaNo1
A total BEAUTY!
Juliette.Gribnau
oh my... I have no words to describe my feelings with this beauty
fx7
A Gorgeous image Helen! Marvelous depth of form, fine and subtle texturework.. and the color is the very edge of exquisite!!
eras50
Exquisite work, lovely, delicate and elegant. The colours are beautiful and very appropriate and your texture-work is fantastic. A big V
Tutte
Never could afford the real thing but this fabulous image conjures up all types of scenarios ...hmmmm.....so cool, refreshing, mouth popping, lip puckering, pallette cleansing.....I have now wondered off into fantasyland of romantic nights...shouldn't do that... but isn't that what your images are intended to do? Stimulate the imagination? At least for me, you are the expert! Amazing what fractals can do!!!
soepie17
A pearly leaf, or leaf-like pearl jewelry? Either way a beautiful posting!!!
abmlober
it was some 20 or 30 years ago in Austria and then in Germany that glycol from anti-freezers were put into the "ice wine" to make them even more sweet and thick. After that scandal sweet wines nearly completely vanished from the shops here and wines like those from France or Italy or Spain were cultivated. - A very fine image btw :-)
sofie-filo
I like the image very much; in all the aspects. Bravo; well done!
Junglegeorge
Beautiful as always Helen :-)
RodolfoCiminelli
Wonderful and very creative realization my friend....!!! Impressive shapes and beautiful colors/textures......!!! V
renderix
wonderful fractal work-colouring and texture!
mountmous
I've never ever heard of ice wine. And the vineyards around you have white grapes, I gather. Lovely image.
kansas
Very beautiful fractal which looks like a cluster of grapes.
FireLily
Ultra beautiful image! Wonderful background and I love the little tendrils! :)
tyllo
Thanks for info on ice wine issue,never heard about it! Your image is terrific,gives a touch of frosty feeling...Beautiful work!!!
redbeard
I never heard of it either but it sounds like an interesting process and is probably quite delicious. A friend of mine owns a couple of small wineries in the Finger Lakes but I don't think he does anything like this. It must be quite the crowd of pickers that this attracts! Beautiful fractal, I think you've really succeeded in capturing the look and chilly feel of this.
AnnaKirsten
Absolutely beautiful jewel-like image! Excellent!
Harmen
lovely piece of work Helen @};- ... i adore icewine, [ge:Eiswein] especially the one coming from Niagara Falls ... so if you could send me a case, i'd be very obliged BIG SMILE Here during xmas season we like to drink Glow Wine [ge: Gluhwein] though...
XoxoTree
This is real to form. i love it.Well done.
Deloulark
Wow, so very beautiful... I love the textures here and the colours are awesome!! :)
Lyne
You did! stunning look of delicious frozen grapes! :)) and the leaves etc... perfection!!! (unlike my spelling!) VOTE!
spiegel428
Such an elegant image, beautifully composed.
Burpee
I saw your pictured in Velma's favorite images and clicked to view. This is stunning and original! I love it...they way you've created a cluster of grapes...awesome artwork!