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I've had a lot of red wine in my life; like, probably too much. The only bottle with a memorable taste came from a wine tour in Napa Valley where they said half the field was destroyed in a fire, so they were getting rid of the rest for cheap. The wine was super smoky... and absolutely delicious. I wonder why that never became a thing.


We had a lot of smoke tainted “experimental” wines out from Australian vineyards as 2019 and 2020 releases - some were really interesting, others simply dreadful (with winemakers just glad you were happy to take a punt and get rid of it for them).

Not sure repeating the bushfires that created those releases is a long term strategy though…


Probably difficult and expensive to consistently burn the field down.


Maybe happening more often with the wildfires these days


That's what we have PG&E for: Peaty Grapes and Ethanol.


You may find you like peaty single malt scotches.


I once asked for a very smoky whisky and was bought out something completely clear.


There's a bunch of pale straw colored Islays (Ardbeg comes to mind). "Completely clear" would throw me off a bit, but very light? Sure.


It was very smoky and tasted like whiskey. It was probably straw colored, it was dim yellow lighting in there.


You can get white dog to be very Smokey by actually smoking it. If it was low enough proof the lack of age wouldn’t be super obvious.




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