Winemakers believe 2023 could see white wine made from traditionally red-wine grapes, and more rosé
B.C. wine industry business owners are facing what is likely to be the worst year many have seen for forest fire smoke. This comes as production is also crimped by a colder than normal winter that stunted vines.
"The vineyard itself will be nonproductive because of smoke damage," said the 81-year-old, who has evacuated his property and is staying with family. Winemakers may have to be creative to bottle something worth putting their brand on, and selling. Oldfield told BIV that winemakers might make white wine from what are traditionally red-wine grapes by removing skins early in the winemaking process.
Winemakers in recent years have had to deal with more smoke taint. Okanagan-based mobile contractor Cellar Dweller has two technologies to help winemakers remove smoke taint, principal Robert Kwakernaak told BIV this summer. One of those technologies uses reverse osmosis, he said. The other uses what he called “a molecularly imprinted resin.”
Ootes' 13-year-old winery, for example, is losing revenue by not selling wine at its tasting room because that facility is closed. He told BIV that before the wildfires, tourism to his winery was surpassing what he saw in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic limited travel. "Wineries would be unhappy if I said, 'All wineries are closed," because there's no such blanket statement like that," he said.
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