Oregon wine's image is distinctive, as witness this deliberately folksy picture for the Oregon Touring Guide on the official Oregon wine website.
I was going to write that Oregon is a real hot spot now, but this of course would be tactless in view of the traumatic wildfires that Oregon vine growers experienced in 2020, as described by Sam Cole-Johnson in Smoke taint – the view from Oregon. She also produced an eight-part diary of the trials and tribulations they encountered in the 2019 harvest.
Gone is the cliché of Oregon being a cool, grey, damp place to...