"When life hands you lemon, make lemonade"Will it make a "smoky" wine that becomes a "limited edition"?
"When life hands you lemon, make lemonade"Will it make a "smoky" wine that becomes a "limited edition"?
It is fire season. It was extremely windy, even for the area where the fires got going. I read yesterday that a PGE (Pacific GAs and Electric) employee thought that toppled power lines and blown transformers started the fires (I don't think this was an official PGE statement), but it could have been a spark from anything, with the conditions that existed.One of my friends that is really into wine made a statement the other day that "it seems suspicious that 8-9 fires started in wine country all at once". Has anyone heard others say something is suspicious?
Yes. The spread through wildland by going to the ground and burning dry brush, leaving the trees to burn slowly. They go through residential areas by burning from house to house, which are a lot drier than trees.What's weird is the houses on fire but the trees around them are not. Is that common? Do the trees burn later?
It may only be one or two fires. Atlas started first. Then the winds sunday evening were nearly hurricane level on the mountain tops. Its almost certain, for example, that the Nunns fire was spawned from Tubbs. Pocket fire also seems almost certain to have been spawned by sparks from Tubbs. Firefighters have put out many--hudreds? of little ember spawned fires before they became worthy of naming.One of my friends that is really into wine made a statement the other day that "it seems suspicious that 8-9 fires started in wine country all at once". Has anyone heard others say something is suspicious?
BTW, you may have heard that Chateau St Jean was destroyed. That does appear to be true. However, CSJ hasn't actually been made there in years. Treasury WIne Estates (parent company, 3 or 4 largest wine co in world) moved production to their big Napa facility long ago and mothballed the winery.
Not that suspicious as we had a sudden burst of very high and very erratic winds in a 2 hour period the night of Oct 9.One of my friends that is really into wine made a statement the other day that "it seems suspicious that 8-9 fires started in wine country all at once". Has anyone heard others say something is suspicious?
Yep. J Winery, formerly one of my favorites being about the most recent. Edna Valley Vyd purchased a few years ago also wiped out one of my favorite "cheap chardonnay that doesn't suck" options.Sorry to hear Chateau St Jean was mothballed with production moved into Napa. Big surprise as It was a fav.
I suspect Gallo has bought many wineries all over CA.
I think every builder willing to get to Santa Rosa to work is going to be very busy again. May interfere with our plans to build on Donner Lake next summer, TBH.A friend who is a contractor in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa already knows of 6 houses that he custom built that burned down. I wonder if his business is going to be very busy again. Last ski season he barely skied because he had so much business; and he has to take the work when he has it. At swim practice a couple of my teammates have parents or in-laws who lost homes. In both cases the people are old enough that they don't want to rebuild. I'm just now reading the news about the missing and fatalities. Really sad...
BTW, I have to confess, I did go into the closet and check on the Renouns. They are fine. Seem anxious to get on snow . . .
You're lucky to have good neighbors...I think every builder willing to get to Santa Rosa to work is going to be very busy again. May interfere with our plans to build on Donner Lake next summer, TBH.
As for the fatalities, its so sad, but not surprising. I've just never known anything to move like this.
When it sank in it scared the s**t out of me. When our neighbor woke us up at 1:40 (actually one at the door and one on the phone simultaneously) the fire had already passed us by. We went out on the porch and looked to the NW and felt the fire was far away ( was only about 2/3 mile in actuality), but that we'd better evacuate to be safe. What we didn't realize is that it had ALREADY burned through a 1/4 to a 1/3 mile north of us and passed us by. I'm just not shocked that some got caught by it. I'll be shocked, I am sorry to say, if they are done identifying the deceased. There but for the grace of the wind gods . . .
To the ScotsSkier home for wayward and distraught skis?They may seem fine Bob, but in reality they have been traumatized. Better to give them away than be disappointed.....
I saw that too. I cannot imagine the priceless memorabilia that was there. I do understand most everything was at the museum but what what there had to be incredibly personal and unique.Good grief Charlie Brown. It's reported Charles Schultz's (rip) home in Santa Rosa burned. His wife
was living there.