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  QUICK FACTS ABOUT BC’S WINE INDUSTRY
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Sales: British Columbia VQA wine sales have doubled in the last six years to more than $155 million annually.

Tannin: A compound in the skin and seeds of grapes that is essential in providing substance and backbone to red wines.*

Quality: The VQA designation (Vintners Quality Alliance) requires a professional tasting panel to approve each wine.

Terroir: Borrowed from the French, this term encompasses the entire environment–soil, climate, aspect–that makes a vineyard special.*

Varietals: 49% of British Columbia’s wines are white. 51% are red. In the last acreage survey conducted, 97.1% of the yield was from vinifera grapes and 2.9% from hybrids.

*Schreiner, John - British Columbia Wine Country, Whitecap Books Ltd., 2003

 
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