Posted on 10/14/2005 4:45:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Insured.
Now there's a government job I'd do.
My brother was a Medic is the Army. Every so often they had to "destroy" the old medicinal alcohol! A little OJ...
If heat made wine better, then wineries would heat the wine, which they don't. You can do with it as you please after you buy the bottle.
I am sure more worried about Spanish and Italian wines than California.
With veneration and gratitude.
Well then you're missing out on the world's finest cabernets. Funny thing about cab is that, with the right fruit, it practically makes itself so there's lots of great ones around that don't cost a fortune.
Clearly, you can't cook the wine at THOSE temperatures. However, my wine crosses the equator in unrefridgerated containers. The reds are drinkable soo much sooner than usual..
I hear that the French place their wines in containers and send them around, storage plus, I suppose, and they are prematurely aged that way. I could be wrong. But MY experience has helped my cellar along.
Except my whites. Those turn way too fast because of it..
A very sad day.
"Brandy has been made in California since the mission days when Aguardiente [that is, "fire water" = mission wine brandy] as it was called, was a staple commodity. After the first great influx of gold seekers in 1848 and 1849, brandy was produced in large quantities particularly in southern California.
That could not have been a gasoline and rags arson, IMO.
Maybe employees were cooking crack or meth in the back?
Employees don't reset the alarm unless they either KNOW there isn't a fire or they were covering up some chemical operation and they thought they had it under control.
Nobody is going to risk losing their place of employment unless they're covering up something they don't want the bosses, and the police, to know about.
my first thought on this one was "insurance job". So cynical, i know.
Wine tasting for the Feds? Woo Hoo! Me, too. Where do I sign up?!
Eventually? "Uhhh ... hey Skinner ... gimme some more of dat Caber ... Caber ... Cabernet ... I'm not sure it's good or ruin .. ruin ... bad. (hic)"
Along with Violence, Adult Language, and Nudity
I'm still crying over the Pride Mountain loss a few years ago in a similar situation (Parker called it liquid Viagra).
It doesn't seem prudent to perform an experiment such as this on an over-rated, over-priced bottle of grape juice.
Yes, understood you're joking but got my stab in too.
I just talked to a firefighter who was on the scene. Evidently the roof was being refurbished and it was the first to catch on fire. This is probably why the staff didn't notice the fire inside the structure.
The burning roof eventually collapsed on top of offices and the warehouse which was full of wooden racks, partitions etc and the whole place got incinerated.
My partner lost two years worth of wine and he's pretty devastated. His whole effort got smoked.
I hope your partner is insured. Thanks for the local update.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.