Smoke taint. What vineyard owners and winemakers have worried about for several years now has hit harder than ever in 2020. Of course, 2020. Why not? Everything else has.
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| from cnbc.com |
The first time this was an issue, as far as I can remember, were the June 2008 lightning strike fires to the north in Mendocino County. This hit at a different time in the growth cycle of the grapes and caused some localized problems in northern Sonoma and in Mendocino. The 2017 fires were early October when most grapes were already picked.
This year the first fires were from mid-August lightning strikes from the worse lightning storm any of us can remember in northern California. The skies had barely cleared from that when the Glass Fire hit late September. So we have August and September fires hitting will almost all the grapes are still on the vines with many days of heavy smoke in the sky.
This is an article from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat on what it's like to be a grape grower or winemaker this year. A year that was already having problems because of Covid.
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