Anthony Gismondi: What to know about smoke taint for B.C. vintages
Vintage 2026 is shaping up to be a year of mixed challenges across B.C. wine country.
Most people will know that the Bald Range wildfire has effectively eliminated the use of most grapes grown in the Garnet Valley this year; the vines are mostly intact, by the way, and should be able to produce next year with little or no effect.
But it is also true that smoke damage, or smoke taint as it is called in the wines, has spread much farther, into Summerland and north as far as Peachland, as well as across Okanagan Lake to sites on the Naramata Bench.
U.S. wildfire smoke has also left some marks in the Osoyoos and Oliver areas in the south Okanagan.
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