Washington’s wine industry has had to make several changes over the past few years. Higher temperatures and wildfire smoke have forced growers to adapt.
YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. — The vines of the wine industry spread across eastern Washington with more than 1,000 wineries producing more wine than any other state, except California.
Eighty-two of those wineries are in Yakima Valley, with vineyards covering 12,000 acres that are pumping out one-third of Washington’s grapes.
But warming temperatures threaten to turn that culture to ash as climate change forces winegrowers to adjust their process.
“It’s how we react to the weather and we try
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