nearly gone as well. Molgat notes that wine in a can is different than that in a bottle. Work in the lab and aging trials indicate that the reductive environment of the closed can, with no oxygen, causes the wine to lose its flavours over time.
With that in mind, they make it in small batches so it’s always fresh- tasting
It’s similar to a cider. It ages well in the tank, but not once it’s canned. Now cider is a beverage that Molgat’s family has some experience with. Ward’s Hard Apple Cider is made from cider apples brought from Europe in the 1920s by George Washington Ward, Molgat’s great- grandfather.
They include Bramley, Jersey Chisel, Bulmers Norman, Porters Perfection, Lord Lambourne, Belle de Boskoop and Cox’s Orange Pippin. Today, in addition, Wards also produces a Festive Apple Cider, and makes Picker’s Hut Premium ciders, which will include a Winter’s Hut Winter Spice cider this winter. It can be served warmed, with a cinnamon stick.
The View Winery actually grew from the existing cider operation because good cider-makers wanted to make quality wines as well, Molgat explains. As a result, both the winery and the cidery have grown. The View’s tasting room is located on Ward Road, in what was Ward’s packinghouse, where both the ciders and wines are made and sold. It was built by her great-grandfather in 1922. He was a man who liked his cider and who grew the apples with which to make it.
The land has been in the Turton/Ward family for five generations, but it was in the 1990s that the rows of apple trees began to give way to trellises of grapes. Spartans and McIntosh gave way to Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Ehrenfelser, Optima and Pinotage. Molgat produced the first wines in 2007, a Gewurztraminer and a Pinotage.
Today, she also produces a Red Shoe White and Red Shoe Red, a Riesling, Distraction Rose, Hail Mary, Fossil Fuel, and several dessert wines. Plans include a Voulez View next year, and, of course, another Bling.
6 British Columbia FRUIT GROWER • Winter 2014-15
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