Wildfire smoke can taint grapes, making them unsuitable for wine production. But a Newberg winery teamed up with a distiller for a creative solution.
NEWBERG, Ore. — Recent summer wildfires have devastated many Oregon wineries, leaving the local wine industry with tainted grapes and unsellable wine. Now one Newburg winery has teamed up with a distiller and found a creative use for the smoke-filled grapes. Instead of throwing away hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of wine, they turned it into whiskey.
Jim Anderson, owner of Patricia Green Cellars in Newberg, recalled that he began the summer of 2020 full of anticipation for a bountiful wine
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