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The Legacy of Walter Clore
How a child of dust-bowl Oklahoma became the father of Washington state's wine industry
Thomas Skeen
Issue: December 15, 2002
Dry, sunny eastern Washington state has rapidly made it to the top tier of American wine regions. Local vintners and growers say the reasons are pretty basic. First, they'll tell you about how, some 15,000 to 17,500 years ago, massive walls of water escaping from a huge ice-dammed lake in Montana scoured the Columbia River basin east of the Cascade Mountains.
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