Click to be added or removed.Wine news ping.
Posted on 10/14/2005 4:45:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Click to be added or removed.Wine news ping.
Actually, a REAL tragedy for yours truly would have been if this happenned to Louis Martini, Stag's Leap, or Joseph Phelps. Coho puts out some good stuff and I'm pulling for them to get through this.
I may be an agnostic, but wine and olive oil make me believe that their is a God.
I've always wondered: How do California Freepers view their wine industry?
Trivia: The first commercial vineyards in California were NOT in Napa or Sonoma, but in LOS ANGELES!
Wine that has been heated is junk, and the growers had better make sure that the surviving bottles are destroyed or their future sales of new vintages will be tarnished.
Now there's a government job I'd do.
BTW: Watch the already high price of Alexander Valley Cabernet (and other Napa appellations) go through the roof.
Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms: The OTHER Holy Trinity.
LO. That's gonna be one heckuva party. ;)
"Oh the humanity!"
are they crying over spilt grape juice?
Los Angeles - or Los Angeles County i.e. Ontario/Pomona area ?
Of course, this was more than a century ago.
If the damaged wines are insured, and the prices for surviving wines from the vintage soar, some wineries stand to make a tidy profit on this event.
I live in Napa. Make and sell wine. My partner just moved his 2002 and 2003 inventory to this supposedly "fire-proof" facility just two months ago. I preferred to pay a bit more to have my wines closer. Whew!
Everyone up here is wondering how in the hell a solid concrete structure could go up in flames. The managers advertised this place as having a "State-of-the-art" fire detection system. I'm guessing it's arson. Someone short of cash insures his inventory for "retail" value then torches the place.
The industry side is kinda fun. Napa culture is totally centered on food and drink but that's reasonably healthy. Napa's a nice place to live and work. People are friendly and there's surprisingly little of the snobbery you might expect. Industry people are mostly blue collar.
That can't be said for some of the nouveau riche arrivistes who are a rather liberal bunch. Even so, it's a tolerant, prosperous place good for raising a family.
By the way, Alexander Valley is in Sonoma County. I doubt the fire will have much effect on wine prices. There's a bit too much inventory all around.
But see where De Villipean (sp?) was at the time.
"The fire is being regarded as suspicious partly because the building appeared to be fire-resistant, a dense, concrete structure once used to repair submarines. "
Thank God that their was no submarine in there.
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