Anthony Gismondi: B.C. vineyards nervously await critical flowering

As we head for June, British Columbia grape growers are preparing for one of many annual vineyard events that keep them awake at night.
After surviving the winter, and early spring frosts, their grapevines are sprawling across the post and wires that define vineyard rows and are about ready to determine the size of the 2018 crop in what is known as “the flowering and the set.”
The date of flowering is never the same from year to year but is thought to be somewhere between 40 to 80 da