Rye Posted August 24, 2014 Posted August 24, 2014 Sad to hear about the quake in the Napa valley. It really looks like the wine industry took the hardest hit, but I hope no one was hurt. I am tempted to fly out and help with "cleanup"
dangolf18 Posted August 24, 2014 Posted August 24, 2014 I was in Marin county when it happened. Definitely a good jolt. Woke me up. Bed was shaking violently and house creeked a lot. Thank god it wasn't bigger.
Ken Gargett Posted August 24, 2014 Posted August 24, 2014 very sad and best wishes to all involved in any way. that top photo a curious one. looks like a personal cellar but the labels appear to be simply added to cleanskins. assume the wineries well insured?
Ken Gargett Posted August 24, 2014 Posted August 24, 2014 ps - gather it happened in the middle of the night. just as well. there could have been plenty of cellar hands working around those barrels during the day.
madandana Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 Bummer.I hope they protected the 2 buck Chuck. 1
PapaDisco Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 ps - gather it happened in the middle of the night. just as well. there could have been plenty of cellar hands working around those barrels during the day. Yeah, a little after 3 a.m. here, felt it in San Francisco. Curious that so much in the way of barrels and bottles ended up on the ground with 'just' a 6.0. The old buildings blowing out bricks and such you can understand, but everyone else is generally pretty well prepared for 6.0's and 7.0's. Likely would have been at least a couple fatalities if it had been during the day (a car or two got crushed by bricks), but as it is we got off lucky.
sengjc Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 very sad and best wishes to all involved in any way. that top photo a curious one. looks like a personal cellar but the labels appear to be simply added to cleanskins. assume the wineries well insured? Probably Rudy Kurniawan's - those are not cleanskins, they are evidence.
Puros Y Vino Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 Very troubling. I'm wondering though. Pretty much all of California is earthquake prone no? Did any of the storage designs account for that? The Japanese have been doing it for decades. Given the value of the stock the extra precautions are warranted to at least minimize damage.
tagheuer Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 I hope nobody got hurts and only materials lost.
MrGTO Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 Very troubling. I'm wondering though. Pretty much all of California is earthquake prone no? Did any of the storage designs account for that? The Japanese have been doing it for decades. Given the value of the stock the extra precautions are warranted to at least minimize damage. They keep their wine safe, but not their nuke plants?
Fuzz AI Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 They keep their wine safe, but not their nuke plants? Priorities, mate. Priorities.
PapaDisco Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 Very troubling. I'm wondering though. Pretty much all of California is earthquake prone no? Did any of the storage designs account for that? The Japanese have been doing it for decades. Given the value of the stock the extra precautions are warranted to at least minimize damage. I think California still beats Japan in earthquake preparedness. For every one of those toppled casks, there were thousands more still on their stands. The wine masters that I know personally didn't lose a single barrel, so I think what we're seeing on the news is not only the worst of it, but perhaps literally all of it. Still, it's kinda surprising that even one drop was spilled on a 6.0.
rhcolbert Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 The insurance industry is praying they excluded contents on the policies!
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