It smelled like burnt plastic': Wildfires ruin billions of dollars of wine each year. Here's how vineyards are adapting

from www.fastcompany.com 11 months ago

Unfortunately, that's exactly how a batch of newly-fermented grape juice tasted to Maggie Kruse, winemaker at Jordan Winery.
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The 2020 wildfires were especially devastating because they came so early in the growing season, well before September, and nearly all wine varietal grapes were still ripening on the vine.
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It smelled like burnt plastic': Wildfires ruin billions of dollars of wine each year. Here's how vineyards are adapting
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