I'm not saying the nation's best wine comes from Ohio, but there are many serious growers/winemakers working there, and it doesn't help when they lose over 80% of this year's crop to a very severe late freeze, after the vines are budded out.
We, west of the Cascades, are lucky that this is not often a problem. And we have drier summers with low humidity, which reduces the disease pressure on the grapes. Everywhere east of here, that isn't in a desert, has to deal with both problems.
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