Vidal Blanc

This wine is made in the north eastern Chinese province of Liaoning, where winter temperatures regularly plummet below -8°C. As such, the region is the perfect location to make quality ice wines. Its frozen grapes produce not only a brilliant purity of fruit, but also immense concentration and invigorating acidity. This wine has a perfumed nose dense with floral aromatics and tropical fruit. The palate is loaded with citrus, orchard fruit and has a tropical twist, with notes of orange blossom honey on the finish. This would make a suitably eccentric accompaniment to any creamy dessert or a tropical fruit salad. 
Katherine Dart MW, Wine Buyer

This is the lightest of the three ice wines made at Changyu, with 140g/l residual sugar. The wine is made from the juice of the third crush and accounts for 75 percent of the estate’s total ice wine production.
Because the fruit for ice wine is frozen, but healthy and not botrytised, the attack is always very fresh and pure, with a very positive level of acidity. Here the profile is more of citrus and tropical fruits, blossom and honey. Creamy desserts work well, such as crème brûlée, or try simply with tropical fruits like pineapple or mango.

Changyu's Blue Label Ice Wine is made from the second press, and reaches 160g/l. A more intense wine than the Gold label, with a spicy honey note and a richer viscosity, with aromas of lychee and pear. Almost any flavour of ice cream works well (the acidity acts as a counterpoint) or cream cheeses.
Mark Pardoe - Wine Director

The Changyu Golden Ice Wine Valley is situated in the far north-east of China, in the Liaoning Province, close to the borders of North Korea and Russia. No, honestly. In particular it is the area around Huanlong Lake that has attracted the company’s attention; at an altitude of 380m and with the temperature moderated by that large body of water.

The grapes ripen well in summer but when the winter temperature drops to -8C (as required for ice wine production), this can be held naturally for 24 hours. The vineyards have been developed in partnership with Aurora, a Canadian wine company, themselves no strangers to ice wine.  Initially the Vidal grape variety has been planted, a hybrid cross of Ugni Blanc and Seibel, chosen for its hardiness. It would be interesting to see how Riesling would fare. This is the largest, commercial, regular production of ice wine in the world.

Changyu's Blue Label Ice Wine is made from the second press, and reaches 160g/l. A more intense wine than the Gold label, with a spicy honey note and a richer viscosity, with aromas of lychee and pear. Almost any flavour of ice cream works well (the acidity acts as a counterpoint) or cream cheeses.