RICK VANSICKLE/Wines In Niagara
The last time I caught up with Daniel Lenko, he was, to put it bluntly, pissed – at the Region of Niagara, at the Escarpment Commission (over sign issues), and pretty much at everyone having anything to do with the layers of bureaucracy in the Ontario wine industry.
It was in the heat of the summer, and as temperatures were rising (both in Niagara and with Lenko), the Beamsville Bench farmer, winemaker and winery owner had just been slapped with an “order to comply” certificate that was pasted on the door of his winery, which houses barrels of wine and the tools of the trade needed to make wine, including the water that does a great deal of the work from cleaning out barrels to the scrubbing of the floors.
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