Puget Sound area emerging as new wine region
By 2009-10-14 10:09:57
SEQUIM, Wash. -- A new wine industry is growing in a part of Washington that climate scientists thought would have been a difficult, if not impossible, choice.
New Olympic Peninsula wine-grape growers are capitalizing on small climate shifts that are reshaping the global wine-growing map.
As climate change threatens the world's most-famous wine regions - parts of France, Australia and California - experts say the cool-climate in the Puget Sound region might be a beneficiary of the change.
From THE ASSOCIATED PRESS