Ice wine served over vanilla bean ice cream
This is a decadent dessert where a scoop of creamy vanilla bean ice cream is served in a shallow bowl and generously drizzled with chilled ice wine. The dish is a simple yet elegant combination of a frozen dairy dessert and a sweet, concentrated dessert wine, popular in wine-producing regions like Canada's Niagara Peninsula and parts of Germany.
🍽️ Nutrition at a glance
This is a high-sugar and high-fat dessert, with the ice cream contributing most of the fat and the ice wine adding a significant amount of natural sugar. A typical serving provides a quick energy boost from carbohydrates and offers small amounts of calcium and potassium.
Nutrition breakdown
| Calories | 275 kcal |
| Protein | 3.5 g |
| Carbs | 38 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Fiber | 0 g |
| Sugar | 35 g |
| Sodium | 55 mg |
| Calcium | 80 mg |
| Potassium | 180 mg |
| Phosphorus | 70 mg |
| Vitamin A | 100 IU |
| Vitamin D | 0.5 mcg |
| Riboflavin (B2) | 0.05 mg |
Per 1 scoop vanilla bean ice cream (100 g) with 2 tablespoons (30 ml) ice wine · estimated, varies by recipe
💡 What's interesting
Culturally, this dessert highlights the use of ice wine—a specialty wine made from grapes naturally frozen on the vine—as a luxurious sauce. Nutritionally, the combination is a study in contrasts: the cold, fatty creaminess of the ice cream versus the sweet, acidic, and aromatic intensity of the wine.
