Benton City, Wash.—Bears, birds and even a harvest-time grinch with a tasted for Mourvèdre were present in Northwest vineyards this year, as patience squared off against covetousness.While most vintners—even ice wine producers—were able to get grapes in and wines down for the winter prior to the holiday season, some grapes went astray as creatures whom many growers undoubtedly deemed “cuddly as a cactus” (to steal a line from the description of Dr. Seuss’ notorious Christmas-time villain, the Grinch) invaded vineyards and wineries from Oregon to the Okanagan.