Background on the 2024 vintage
Due to the severe winter in January 2024, we were unable to harvest fruit from our vineyards. Adding to that, 40% of our vineyards are undergoing replanting in 2025 to replace the vines that were lost. A first in our 39 year history. To help keep our cellar doors open and ensure we have wine available for you to enjoy, we elected to purchase fruit from the USA for our 2024 vintage.
Purchasing fruit from outside of B.C. is not something that our winery licence currently allows for. We have relied on the B.C. government to allow a temporary variance to our licensing to allow for the purchase of fruit from outside of B.C. This variance was announced at the end of July, a month before vintage harvest. This did not provide us and the industry a lot of time to acquire fruit. And certainly having to source and secure from regions we have never purchased fruit from before. Thankfully we found a broker of grape sales who was instrumental in helping us find a region and vineyards that would fit the Gehringer Brothers house style.
This was a very unique opportunity for the greater industry to come together and be of benefit to one another as there were hundreds of acres of vines south of the border with fruit on them that had no home.
All the wines are estate vinified and bottled.
Purchasing fruit from outside of B.C. is not something that our winery licence currently allows for. We have relied on the B.C. government to allow a temporary variance to our licensing to allow for the purchase of fruit from outside of B.C. This variance was announced at the end of July, a month before vintage harvest. This did not provide us and the industry a lot of time to acquire fruit. And certainly having to source and secure from regions we have never purchased fruit from before. Thankfully we found a broker of grape sales who was instrumental in helping us find a region and vineyards that would fit the Gehringer Brothers house style.
This was a very unique opportunity for the greater industry to come together and be of benefit to one another as there were hundreds of acres of vines south of the border with fruit on them that had no home.
All the wines are estate vinified and bottled.
The Wines
Rosé2024 - California
Pinot Gris
2024 - California
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Riesling2024 - Washington
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Dry Riesling2024 - Washington
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