与世界其他地区相比,西海岸wineries have always been about small-lot winemaking. While you will find industrial-sized tanks in larger wineries, 2-ton fermenters are more commonplace, and grapes are also fermented in barrels and concrete eggs for some of the premium brands. In 2020, though, fermentations got smaller than ever. The Glass Fire roared through Napa and Sonoma counties. Wildfires in Oregon burned more than 1 million acres. Both tragedies happened in September, when there were still many grapes on the vine. Unable to decide whether to pick grapes that might have been affected by smoke, many winemakers instead made tiny fermentations in the smallest vessels they could, even doing test fermentations in bu...