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There’s a Smoke Taint Task Force

Summer on the West Coast is no longer just about sun rays, sea spray and beach days. With climate change cooking landscapes everywhere, summertime today spells wildfire season. By the end of July, nearly 5,000 separate blazes across California, Oregon and Washington had already charred more than two million acres—and they’re just getting started. Ferocious […]

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How Researchers Are Trying to Remedy Smoke Taint

Chris Fladwood, head winemaker at Soter in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, expected 2020 to be one of the most incredible years the state had ever seen. It was dry, warm and consistent, with cool nights that ushered grapes to ideal ripeness. But a pandemic hit. Then fires—larger than those that struck in the last 36 years […]

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