HOGSWINE

I’m not a geologist.

Nor do I have any more than a passing interest in terroir and how important it might be.

What I do know and care about is that the story of Washington state, and more specifically, the Walla Walla Valley becoming a great place to grow grapes is fascinating. It is one that involves one of the greatest cataclysmic events in recent history, a glacier thousands of feet high, a gigantic lake that once covered a large swath of Montana and floods that swept over the eastern half of my favorite state.  In a few weeks I am going to tell the story of how Glacial Lake Missoula formed, what happened over the course of centuries when it drained, and what it all means when pulling out the cork (or unscrewing the cap off!) from your favorite bottle of Washington wine.