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...Becker used SVB’s connections among Sonoma and Napa county vineyards to wine and dine tech barons....
...Who Sotheby’s International Realty — Wine Country Brokerage House, Geyserville, $5.995mn Where In Geyserville, a small town in the Alexander Valley of Sonoma County....
...The largest recorded fire devoured 459,123 acres of forested Mendocino county, further to the north, in 2018....
...The Sonoma County’s Sheriff Office said that 180,000 people were under evacuation order. “This is the largest evacuation that any of us at the Sheriff’s Office can remember,” it said in a tweet....
...All 40 Sonoma County public school districts will be closed Monday, October 28 and Tuesday, October 29, county officials said....
...The worst of the fires are ablaze in Sonoma County, one of California’s best-known wine regions, and the Santa Clarita region of Los Angeles County....
...The number of people missing in the fire-ravaged area was raised to 1,011 by the county sheriff’s office, a sharp increase over earlier estimates....
...The cause of the outbreak has not yet been determined. Mendocino County is about three hours’ drive north of San Francisco....
...The worst of the damage was created by a tornado near the town of Beauregard, authorities said. “The devastation is incredible,” said Sheriff Jay Jones of Lee County....
...A report on 12 fires in the Mendocino, Humboldt, Butte, Sonoma, Lake, and Napa Counties by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection on Friday found that the Northern California wildfires...
...Seven people were killed in Sonoma, the country sheriff’s office said, two died in Napa and one person was killed in Mendocino county....
...An estimated 285 people were missing in the county on Wednesday, according to the Sonoma county sheriff’s office....
...Fast-moving wildfires have torn through at least 75,000 acres of northern California, killing ten people in the US’s prime wine-growing regions of Napa and Sonoma....
...Santa Rosa city in Sonoma county is one of the worst-hit areas....
...This week’s Thomas, Creek and Rye fires on the northern edge of the city have already burnt through tens of thousands of acres of LA county....
...Professor David Block, head of the department of viticulture at the University of California, Davis, which is 15 miles outside the city centre, says that when he first arrived in 1996 there were around 800...
...On the cap he’s wearing, there is a badge with the words “Sheriff’s Department, Pitkin County” (his late friend Hunter S Thompson’s home ground)....
...Tasting success Family businesses come in all shapes and sizes and in Sonoma County in California, Camille Seghesio is more familiar with the zinfandel and pinot grigio grape, than she is with steel tubing...
...No shortage of character. 14% Dry Creek Vineyard, Somers Ranch Zinfandel 2004 Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma £18.99 Bibendum, Bacchanalia, Whole Foods98% Zinfandel and 2% Petite Sirah from a Zinfandel hotspot...
...Landmark Vineyards, Overlook Chardonnay 2005 Sonoma County £18.25 Jeroboams14% Plenty of spicy oak and sweet ripe melon fruit. As reliable as ever though no longer cheap....
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