{"id":14329,"date":"2012-03-29T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14329"},"modified":"2012-03-29T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:01:12","slug":"ontario-grape-growers-current-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/29\/ontario-grape-growers-current-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario grape growers&#8217; current worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ontariowinereview.com\/newsletter-archives\/899-newsletter-178-why-grape-growers-are-losing-sleep\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Pinkus<\/a> summarizes the situation for the grape growers in Ontario who supply our wineries with much of their fruit:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Just this past Monday grape growers and winery owners lost a few hours of sleep &#8230; and that condition will continue until at least May. What pray-tell has our wine industry shaking in its collective boots so badly that they are willing to forego their already mutilated sleep pattern.  Well I can tell you it&#8217;s not the usual stuff like taxation, health care and wild cat airline strikes. It&#8217;s also not the more specific things that haunt the wine industry like the price of grapes, LCBO involvement and VQA regulations &#8230; nope the winery owners and grape growers are once again in fear of Mother Nature &mdash; more specifically her henchman: Jack Frost.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The latest recorded frost in Niagara-on-the-Lake &mdash; according to one growers records &mdash; is May 15 &#8230; frost would essentially kill off a large number of buds, thus killing the potential of a long growing season with lots of grapes to choose from. &#8220;It&#8217;s either going to be a beautiful full crop with lots of options, or if we get frost, we&#8217;re looking at a very short crop season,&#8221; one winery principal told me. For Ontario wine lovers we&#8217;d better hope Jack doesn&#8217;t decide to make a last appearance, or we&#8217;ll all be drinking Chilean and Australian for our 2012. It&#8217;s gonna be a scary couple of months &#8230; Welcome to Ontario grape growing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Pinkus summarizes the situation for the grape growers in Ontario who supply our wineries with much of their fruit: Just this past Monday grape growers and winery owners lost a few hours of sleep &#8230; and that condition will continue until at least May. What pray-tell has our wine industry shaking in its collective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,65,131],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-14329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-environment","category-wine","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3J7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14330,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329\/revisions\/14330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}