Wineries Look to Plan B

Oct 13, 2017

(Wines&Vines) - Shawn Harmon got the first call for help around 10 a.m. Monday. A truck carrying harvested wine grapes from Lake County to a winery in Napa Valley was blocked from its destination by road closures related to the Atlas Fire.

It wasn’t the last such call Harmon, general manager of Redwood Valley Cellars in Mendocino County, would receive that day. The custom-crush winemaking facility processes 7,000 tons of grapes in an average year, and as of this morning, the business had crushed 300 extra tons for clients affected by Northern California wildfires since Monday. By the time the 11 fires burning in Napa, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties are extinguished, Harmon says it’s likely Redwood Valley Cellars will have processed an extra 1,000 tons.


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