The spirit production building for Ocean’s Daughter Distillery, Aberdeen, Wash.,a subsidiary of Westport Winery, was destroyed by fire Saturday (5/15). The building contained the business’s still, all their warehoused spirits, shipping supplies, tools, and thousands of empty wine bottles staged in preparation for an upcoming bottling.
The Roberts family, which owns the business and lives on the property, were alerted of the fire by drivers. One of those who called the fire in to 9-1-1 was a winery employee passing by on her way home from an evening with friends.
She pounded on winery co-owner Carrie Roberts door to notify her of the disheartening scene. Another good Samaritan, a deckhand from a charter boat, pulled into the winery’s commercial entrance and began fighting the fire with a garden hose. He prevented the adjacent winery production building and the company’s harvest cargo trailer from catching fire.