The world’s most expensive icewine has gone on sale, its creators hoping to snare a buyer willing to write a cheque for CAN$30,000 for a half-bottle, reports Decanter.com.

Whoever snaps up the rare liquid – only five cases of the Chardonnay icewine have been produced – will have to have a fine sense of the absurd as well as deep pockets.

Icewine – made from grapes picked at minus-8 degrees C – is among the world’s most labour intensive wines. But with the world’s richest already splashing out on Bordeaux 2005, whose most expensive wine is Chateau Petrus at £20,000 a case, it may be difficult to focus minds on a sweet wine from Ontario.

The Billy Myers series is one of the 18 different varieties of icewine Royal DeMaria that have marketed from their Ontario vineyard.

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