wine industry

The U.S. West Coast produces over 90% of America’s wine, but the region is also prone to wildfires — a combustible combination that spelled disaster for the industry in 2020 and one that scientists are scrambling to neutralize.

When smoke from severe fires settles over a vineyard, the grapes draw it in. When those grapes are turned into wine, it creates a flavor that is, at best, a little smoky and at worst, tastes like an ashtray.

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates will buy half the grapes it contracted for this fall, which could have ripple effects throughout the region.

Winemakers may soon be able to raise a toast, even after a growing season marked by wildfire smoke.

In 2020 Western wildfires gave the grapes grown for wine in the region an ashy and smokey taste. This year, Washington is expecting a record harvest, but vintners are still figuring out the best way to deal with the impact of smoke.

The U.S. wine industry faces some headwinds, observers say. Rob McMillan is one of the observers; he is an executive at Silicon Valley Bank and the…

Few people would identify any field as "man's work" today, but imbalances in genders persist. The situation has been noticed in the ever-expanding field…

Journalists often have to walk a line between covering a subject and getting immersed in it. Bianca Bosker chose immersion with the wine industry. She…

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It's only in the last few decades that a lot of the region's agriculture has shifted from fruit orchards to grape vineyards. But the region's experience…

One of the greatest expenses of making wine is the cost of people. Much of the work in maintaining wine grapes, is the cost of doing the work by hand.…

The biggest change in Oregon agriculture in the last ten years involves the explosion in the growth of the wine and cannabis industries. Both of those--at…