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Picking grapes at Okanagan <strong>Crush</strong> Pad. Photo by Lionel Trudel. and it was very, very dry,” says Bailey Williamson, winemaker and facilities maintenance for Blue Grouse Estate Winery in Duncan, B.C. “Climate change is definitely upon us and it’s obviously here. With an increase of growing days, we will be able to ripen fully what we are growing here.” Since Blue Grouse is located on Vancouver Island, they were removed from the wildfires. Williamson says that they did get some residual smoke from fires in Washington state, but says that timing is everything when it comes to smoke taint. “It all comes down to the intensity of the smoke and the timing of the ripening of the grapes. If the smoke intensity coincides with the softening of the grape and the accumulation of the sugar, that is the worst time. If the smoke happens early when they are hard marbles, nothing happens.” In the Southern Interior, wineries experienced a longer winter, but not a cold one. Graham Pierce, director of winemaking for Encore Vineyards, TIME Winery, Evolve Cellars, and the McWatters Collection, says that they were a little late out of the gate, but had one of the best Mays on record. He says that they didn’t experience too much smoke in Penticton, but the smoke they did get ended up slowing things down. Thankfully though, they didn’t see too much smoke taint in the wine, but it took a while longer for the ripening to occur. Originally from Vancouver, Pierce has been in the Okanagan for 22 years and says that he’s seen the scope of what they can ripen completely change in that time. “When I first got here it was a struggle to ripen some of the red 10
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