Breath of relief: Local vineyards appear free of 'smoke taint'
Farmworkers pick the last few rows of grapes at the Stillwater Creek Vineyard before the weekend's frost.
Emry Dinman/Columbia Basin Herald
Two farmworkers at Stillwater Creek Vineyard haul bins filled to the brim with dark-purple sangiovese grapes, a Tuscan variety that will eventually be made into a rosé.
A worker dumps a bin of sangiovese grapes into a larger container which are labeled with the winery that they'll be shipped to for fermentation into wine.
MOSES LAKE — After smoke from wildfires blanketed the West Coast in September, some Columbia Basin wine grape growers and winemakers were watching their vineyards with concern, uncertain whether the 2020 vintage would be made less palatable by “smoke taint.”
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