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Meißen (dpa / sn) - The Saxon wine cooperative is hoping for frosty temperatures on the weekend - and for the harvest of ice wine.

In Meißen, grapes of the Cabernet Blanc variety were left on the vines on around 3000 square meters, the winegrowers' cooperative announced on Friday.

In order to be able to harvest this rarity, which is coveted by wine connoisseurs, temperatures of at least seven degrees minus are necessary.

The grapes should be frozen for several days when harvested.

“It was many years ago that we last ice wine,” says managing director Lutz Krüger.

In 2002 there was ice wine from Riesling, shortly afterwards from Dornfelder.

"That is something special, and so we hope that the temperatures on the weekend will be nice and frosty as announced, so that we can finally have an ice wine again."

Saxony is facing a frosty and partly sunny weekend, on Sunday the temperatures should drop to between minus two and minus seven degrees.

Depending on when the coldest temperatures are reached, the ice wine should be read on Sunday night or Monday morning, announced the winemakers.

The Saxon Winzergenossenschaft Meißen is the largest wine producer in the Free State with around 1500 winemakers.