{"id":2457,"date":"2021-11-05T20:12:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T03:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2021\/11\/10\/is-there-smoke-in-my-wine-caldor-fires-impact-on-el-dorado-county-wine-harvest\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T20:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:20:48","slug":"is-there-smoke-in-my-wine-caldor-fires-impact-on-el-dorado-county-wine-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2021\/11\/05\/is-there-smoke-in-my-wine-caldor-fires-impact-on-el-dorado-county-wine-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There Smoke In My Wine? Caldor Fire\u2019s Impact On El Dorado County Wine Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Madisen Keavy<\/pre>\n
EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) \u2014 Smoke from the Caldor Fire can be smelled or tasted in some grapes harvested in El Dorado County \u2014 but they won\u2019t make it in the bottle.<\/p>\n
Firefighters began battling the Caldor Fire on Aug. 14. In total, it burned 221,835 acres \u2013 making it the 15th largest fire in recorded California history.<\/p>\n
At its height, smoke from the fire filled the air of El Dorado County and hung over neighboring wineries for weeks at a time. Some that were closer to the epicenter of the fire saw thick fog-like smoke for several days in a row. Other wineries, further removed from the burn site, experienced smoke until the afternoon, and then it cleared.<\/p>\n
The location and type of grape on the vine at the time resulted in a \u201cstronger\u201d smoke flavor during harvest.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe damage is bad. I would say it\u2019s bad,\u201d said Fernando Abarca, winemaker at Miraflores Winery.<\/p>\n
Abarca said the winery made the decision to harvest all of the grapes, but as they began to be tasted, there were flavors of smoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can definitely taste the smoke,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s got high tannins in the back of your tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wine is still in production and Abarca said it\u2019s new territory for him and the Miraflores team, navigating a harvest impacted by a wildfire. He\u2019s turned to winemakers in Napa to learn how to remove the smoke flavor in the production process.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to come up with a solution for it if there\u2019s a solution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Miraflores harvested 95 tons of grapes from 48 acres. Abarca said all varietals were impacted, but some more than others \u2014 like the Bordeaux varietals, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Bordeaux, and Cabernet Franc.<\/p>\n
READ MORE from: https:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2021\/11\/05\/caldor-fire-smoke-impact-el-dorado-county-wine-harvest\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The wine is still in production and Abarca said it\u2019s new territory for him and the Miraflores team, navigating a harvest impacted by a wildfire. He\u2019s turned to winemakers in Napa to learn how to remove the smoke flavor in the production process. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331.jpg",790,480,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331-600x365.jpg",600,365,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331-768x467.jpg",640,389,true],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331.jpg",640,389,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331.jpg",790,480,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331.jpg",790,480,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331.jpg",790,480,false],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331.jpg",790,480,false],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331-720x480.jpg",720,480,true],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iNedc-1331-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}