Alcoholic Ice Cream?

Frost on the Vine, a Chesterfield ice cream and gourmet foods store, was selling wine ice cream.

It was cold, creamy — and 5 percent alcohol content.

"Eat an ice cream, catch a buzz," joked Blase Bottcher, of St. Louis, just after tasting a spoonful. "What a deal, huh?"

Bobby Watson, a co-owner of Frost on the Vine, has sold the wine ice cream — made by Mercer's, based in upstate New York — for a year.

"It's the only ice cream we're aware of that you have to be 21 to eat it," Watson said.

A pint of the wine ice cream is equal in alcohol content to a glass of wine, Watson said. It sold Sunday for $2.50 a scoop — and a sign at the booth notified customers that proper identification was required.

Delycia Daggs of Ferguson, who enjoys an occasional drink, preferred the Red Raspberry Chardonnay. "It's got a little tang to it," she said. "And when it melts in your mouth, you can taste the liquor."

Daggs' mother, Vee Lee of Jennings, isn't big on alcohol. But at her daughter's urging, she tried a scoop. She could taste the wine in the ice cream. And she liked it.

"This is my first time" to Taste of Clayton, Lee said. "And what a way to start it off."