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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2018
Hop acreage forecast
at a record high
Wineries hedge against climate change
An oasis in the
Coast Range
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
DALLAS — When an Ore-
gon valley famed for its wine
heats up under the afternoon
sun, Pacific Ocean winds rush
through a dip in the moun-
tains, cooling the grapes in
Jeff Havlin’s vineyards.
The Van Duzer Corridor,
the lowest point in Oregon’s
Coast Range, has become a
go-to place for wineries and
vineyards hedging their bets
against climate change. Wine-
makers and vineyard owners
in a 95-square-mile section
of the corridor have applied
to become the newest Ameri-
can Viticultural Area, with the
wind its predominant feature.
“When the temperature
drops, you need a jacket in
August,” said Havlin, who on
a recent afternoon was driving
a utility vehicle through his
vineyards.
From South Africa’s
drought-stricken vineyards,
to France’s noble chateaus,
to sunny vineyards in Aus-
tralia and California, growers
and winemakers say they are
seeing the effects of climate
change as temperatures rise,
with swings in weather pat-
terns becoming more severe.
So they are taking action
— moving to cooler zones,
planting varieties that do bet-
ter in the heat, and shading
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
Jeff Havlin, owner of Havlin Vineyard, drives through one
of his vineyards in Dallas in May.
their grapes with more leaf
canopy.
As areas once ideal for cer-
tain grapes become less via-
ble, causing earlier harvests
and diminished wine quality as
grapes ripen faster, once-iffy
sites like the Van Duzer Corri-
dor are coming into their own.
Northern California’s Peta-
luma Gap, which like the Van
Duzer Corridor sucks in ocean
breezes, was designated one of
America’s newest viticultural
areas in December. Receiving
an American Viticulture Area
designation allows winemak-
ers to emphasize the unique
characteristics of their wine,
determined by climate, geog-
raphy, soil and other factors.
“Even though we have
those heat waves just like Napa
and Sonoma, we still have
the cool breeze in the after-
noon and the cooler tempera-
tures at night and the fog in the
morning,” said Ria D’Aversa,
director of ranch operations at
McEvoy Ranch, a Petaluma
Gap vineyard.
The area’s slogan: “From
wind to wine.”
California winemaker Ehren
Jordan said: “People would
have looked at you like you had
three heads if, 30 years ago, you
told someone you were going
to grow wine grapes there.”
His Failla winery, based in
the Napa Valley, recently bought
80 acres in the Van Duzer Cor-
ridor and opened a winery
nearby. The corridor now has a
half-dozen wineries and at least
17 commercial vineyards, with
more on the way.
Grapevines can toler-
ate heat and drought, and dry
farming is traditionally prac-
ticed in parts of Europe. But
the past four years have been
the planet’s hottest on record,
and more warming is expected.
Even minor weather varia-
tions that occur vintage to vin-
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By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
An Astoria man allegedly
led police on a 2-mile car
chase Thursday.
Police attempted to stop
Tyler Ray Morehouse, 36,
at about 10 a.m. while he
was allegedly driving on
U.S. Highway 101 Business
south of the Old Youngs Bay
Bridge. Morehouse’s driv-
er’s license is suspended and
he had a felony warrant out
for his arrest.
Morehouse, with two pas-
sengers in the car, allegedly
sped up. The car reached 90
mph during the 2-mile chase.
Morehouse
eventually
pulled over near the Astoria
Transfer Station. He allegedly
fled on foot but was arrested
shortly after.
In addition to the sus-
pended license and warrant,
Morehouse was also charged
with eluding a police offi-
cer, two counts of reckless
endangerment, reckless driv-
ing and possession of heroin.
Portland
Nov. 11, 1961—June 30, 2018
Ontario
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Klamath Falls
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Astoria man arrested
after high-speed chase
David Edward Johnson
Roseburg
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Brookings
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said. “And we have a couple
of new growers in the area.
They established part of their
acreage last year and part this
year.”
Washington state is up 835
acres, or 2 percent, and Ore-
gon is unchanged.
Expansion of small craft
breweries fueled an increase
in aroma hop varieties for sev-
eral years but that’s slowed
as the rate of craft brewery
growth has slowed and larger
brewers have lost market
share to other beverages.
Plantings of the super high
alpha varieties of Zeus and
Columbus/Tomahawk have
increased due to concern about
a possible upcoming defi-
cit of alpha for larger brew-
ers globally, said Jaki Brophy,
Hop Growers of America and
Washington Hop Commission
spokeswoman in Moxee.
“It’s questionable whether
a 4 percent increase in acreage
for 2018 was truly needed,
given continued softening in
the craft sector and overall flat
beer growth globally,” said
Peter Mahony, vice president
of supply chain and purchas-
ing for John I. Haas Inc.
OBITUARIES
Baker
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John Day
56/85
Bend
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Medford
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YAKIMA, Wash. — U.S.
hop acreage is forecast at a
record 53,282 acres this year,
up 4 percent over last year,
with new acreage and plant-
ings entering full production.
The 2018 forecast for
Washington state is 39,273
acres, which is 71 percent of
total U.S. acreage, according
to a report Monday from the
National Agricultural Statis-
tics Service.
Idaho is projected at 8,217
acres, or 15 percent of the
total, and Oregon is projected
at 7,849 acres, or 14 per-
cent. Idaho shows the largest
increase in acreage, up 1,224
acres, or 17.5 percent.
Mike Gooding, president
of Gooding Farms north of
Wilder, Idaho, and vice chair-
man of the Idaho Hop Grow-
ers Commission, said the
state’s additional acreage this
year primarily consists of hops
contracted two years ago that
are finally being established.
“A lot of times, growers
are not able to establish all
acres in one season,” Gooding
DUII
• At 12:58 a.m. Friday,
Bobby Alfred Robinson, 52,
of Hammond, was arrested
by Astoria police on Marine
Drive and charged with driv-
ing under the influence of
intoxicants, reckless endanger-
ment and refusing a breath test.
He crashed a car into a pole at
Motel 6.
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ASTORIA
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Sunset tonight ........................... 9:09 p.m.
Sunrise Saturday ........................ 5:32 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 1:15 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 1:56 p.m.
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Year to date .................................... 35.66"
Normal year to date ........................ 36.14"
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Normal high/low ........................... 66°/52°
Record high ............................ 93° in 1908
Record low ............................. 43° in 1932
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By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
ON THE RECORD
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
tage can change the grapes’
sugar, acid and tannin content,
affecting the wine’s taste and
characteristics.
Familia Torres, a major
wine producer based in Spain
with wineries in California
and Chile, bought land 4,000
feet high in the Pyrenees foot-
hills as an investment in cooler
climates.
Average temperatures at
the company’s vineyards have
risen 1.8 degrees over 40 years,
with the result that harvests are
now about 10 days earlier than
20 years ago, company presi-
dent Miguel A. Torres said in
an email.
Torres called climate
change a “very serious world-
wide problem” for winemakers
and said that, beyond chang-
ing viticulture practices, they
should also try to reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions.
Severe drought in South
Africa’s Western Cape caused
a 15 percent drop in the grape
harvest, officials announced in
May, saying wine prices will
likely go up as a consequence.
A predicted long-term drying
trend has serious implications
for South Africa’s wine indus-
try, said Wanda Augustyn of
VinPro, which represents the
nation’s wine producers and
stakeholders.
“In the longer term, pro-
ducers will have to look at
quality,
drought-resistant
vines which produce more
flavor, acidity and intensity,
but have lower water needs,”
Augustyn said.
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David Edward Johnson died on June 30, for football.
After high school, David kept having fun! He
2018, of end-stage congenital heart disease, a
birth defect, at the Hopewell House Hospice in traveled with the state fair, worked at the Liberty
and Columbian theaters, Astoria roller rink and
Portland, Oregon.
Oaks Park. He also worked on a pro-
Johnson was born Nov. 11, 1961,
cessing ship in Alaska. His nephews
in Los Angeles, California, to Edward
and nieces loved when Uncle David
and Janell Blackburn Johnson.
would let them into the roller rink,
He was preceded in death by his
Oaks Park and theaters for free.
parents; sisters, Sandra Hirsch and
David loved to teach skating,
Linda Brazer; a son, Edward Andrew
loved to bowl and go camping with
Johnson; and his buddy-brother-in-
family. We would listen to our 70s
law, Douglas Parvi.
music for hours.
David leaves his daughter, Keri
David had the honor of being an
and Dustin Jones, of Longview, Wash-
ington; a son, Andrew Ortiz, of Bend,
extra in the movie, “The Goonies!”
David Edward
Oregon; three stepchildren, Thomas,
He was the stand-in for Sean Astin.
Johnson
Sarah and Donald Thomas and their
You can see David in many scenes.
mom, Donna Johnson, of Tigard, Ore-
Remember the bike scene when Brand
gon; and granddaughter, Adalyn Johnson of is holding onto the car and his legs go faster
Longview, Washington.
and faster? Those were David’s legs!
David had a huge and giving heart. He was
He also leaves two sisters, Laura Parvi,
of Warrenton, Oregon, and Theresa and John always there when you needed him and gave you
Wheeler, of Heath, Ohio; two brothers, Chris and anything and everything he had.
David was only 4 feet, 11 inches on a good
Shannan Jones of Astoria, Oregon, and Edward
and Sharon Christiansen, of North Ridgeville, day. He stated that God only had to make him
Ohio. He also had many nieces and nephews that tall before reaching perfection! His favorite
saying was, “Not everyone can be as good as a
who considered David the fun uncle!
David graduated from Astoria High School Johnson!”
A graveside service will be held July 14,
in 1981. In high school, he wrestled, and he
enjoyed wrestling after high school with his 2018, at Greenwood Cemetery in Astoria. A
nephews. David also enjoyed singing in the high potluck reception will follow at Laura Parvi’s
school choir and being the equipment manager house, 170 W. Harbor St., Warrenton, Oregon.
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