Lois and Mike Thiede’s Ginkgo Forest Winery is near the Petrified Ginkgo Forest State Park. They have planted hundreds of ginkgo trees near the winery to create their own “ginkgo forest.” What started out as a challenge to prove someone wrong turned into an award-winning Pinot Noir wine—made in the unlikely wine appellation of Washington’s Wahluke Slope. Pinot Noir has the reputation of being one of the most challenging and fickle wine grape cultivars to grow. It needs warm days but cool nights and is very temperature sensitive. Vintners in Oregon’s Willamette Valley have developed a cult-like following for many […]