
In Oregon, cool summers and wet harvests were considered normal before 1998, when a series of warm, dry, generous vintages started. That run came to a screeching halt in 2005, as several consecutive days of rain interrupted the Pinot Noir harvest in the Willamette Valley, just as it got under way.
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