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Is there a wine trail in western Montana’s future?
September 5, 2016 /
Al and Selma Putnam loved everything except the wild neighbors when they bought a place in the Bitterroot Valley and settled down in 2005 to start a vineyard.
"When I was planting out here, I didn’t have the fence, and I looked up on the hill and saw 17 mule deer watching me. And within a week they had come down and eaten everything. So we said, ‘OK, let’s start this thing right, with a fence,’ " Al Putnam, a retired horticulture professor from Michigan State University, recalled.
That explains the name on the label of Putnam’s award-winning hobby wines: "Fenced-Out Mule Deer Vineyards."
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