It’s not the Napa Valley, but Beaver Valley.
That is the latest region to in Grey County to emerge as a wine growing area to produce local wine.
Robert Ketchen is with the Georgian Hills Vineyards and says they now have two sites that are producing grapes for their wine, one in the west side of the Beaver Valley and another near Ravenna.
Ketchen says last year the five acre site produced about 15 tonnes of grapes and he predicts that with the Ravenna site coming on stream this year they could see a yield of about 30 tonnes which would produce about 24 hundred cases of wine.
Keatchen says they are focusing their production on just two white and two reds and this will allow them to see how they perform year to year and how they ferment and how to handle them in the cellar.
He says right now they ship their grapes to a winery in the Niagara area for but are in the process of building their own facility so next year they should be able to grow the grapes and actually produce the wine in Grey County.
Keatchen says this is a growing part of the agricultural community in this region with two wineries now operating,but he predicts that could very well grow to ten producers over the next ten years.