Ice Wine Harvest
Sudden cold snap is just fine for icewine
Okanagan grape growers who have an icewine crop to harvest are watching the thermometer closely…
Earliest ice wine harvest in quarter century
KELOWNA – For one Okanagan winery the early cold snap has let them harvest their…
Cold weather kicks off Okanagan ice wine harvest
KELOWNA – As soon as it was obvious the mild fall was over earlier this…
Ice wine harvest starting early this year
KELOWNA – The CEO of Summerhill Pyramid Winery is one of the few people hoping it gets even colder in the next few days. “Vintners are crazy by our very nature,” Ezra Cipes says. His team were expecting to start harvesting frozen grapes for their ice wines last night, but the call was made at...
Full moon makes for memorable ice wine harvest
KELOWNA – Fans of the syrupy and sweet ice wine from Summerhill Pyramid Winery were out all night this week, helping bring in the harvest. Vineyard manager Willem Semmelink says almost 30 volunteers bundled up and hit the vines Wednesday and Thursday nights as the temperature fell far enough to make picking and transporting the...
Ice wine harvest started early this year
ICE WINE PRODUCTION NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART PENTICTON - Ice wine grape picking might have stopped at about 7 a.m. this morning at the 1775 Bench winery but that didn't mean a break for the tired and frozen staff. The grapes were picked and hauled directly to the processing rooms to be pressed...
Cold weather means record-breaking ice wine harvest in South Okanagan
SOUTH OKANGAN - Wineries throughout the South Okanagan have begun harvesting ice wine grapes after record-low temperatures sweep the valley. Nk’Mip Cellars Winery in Osoyoos has almost completed its harvesting, which has never happened so early in the year, says Moss Scheurkogel, winery supervisor. “It was completely unforeseen,” he says of the cold weather. A...