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From heartbreak to happiness, pinot noir makes itself at home in Canadian vineyards | Canada Voices

Open this photo in gallery:The Stewart family, which operates Quails’ Gate Winery in the Okanagan Valley, planted its first pinot noir vines in 1975, which helped establish the grape variety as one of the flagship red wine varieties in B.C.Tamsin Carriere/SuppliedInternational Pinot Noir Day celebrations on Aug. 18 provide an opportunity to track the grape’s progress in Canadian vineyards. The thin-skinned, temperamental variety’s tendency to rot on the vine in wet or humid weather and other challenges it presents in the vineyards and cellar earned it the nickname The Heartbreak Grape. However, winemakers around the world also lament the notoriously…

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