Sunday, November 29, 2009

Seismic Vineyard

Wall St. Journal has an interesting story about a California winery that sits directly over the San Andreas fault line. They get a lot of scientific visitors.
A jagged crack splits the office floor and runs through the warehouse between the fermentation tanks and the aging barrels. An outer wall is warped. A doorway is barely usable. A long concrete ditch is distorted.
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DeRose is known for rare, old vines and its "dry-farming" technique, which forgoes irrigation to produce small batches of robust reds, particularly Negrette. "There are only a handful of Negrette vines known to survive in the entire world," says wine guide Calwineries, in its entry on DeRose.
My son made a comment which I will simply reproduce for "my" rhyme:

Come for the fault line,
stay for the fine wine.

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