{"id":1411,"date":"2019-11-04T19:45:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2019-11-04T19:45:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:45:20","slug":"editorial-theyre-all-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"Editorial \u2013 They\u2019re All Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, we have all been reading about the terrible fires in California, especially about the Kincade fire that has afflicted Sonoma County.\u00a0 Sad to report, two wineries have been destroyed: Soda Rock and Firestone.\u00a0 As we read the papers about these two, our initial reaction was that we didn\u2019t know Soda Rock but that we were deeply saddened by the destruction of Fieldstone.\u00a0 Their Cabernet Sauvignons have been among our favorites in Alexander Valley and the views of the mountains from their winery were priceless.\u00a0 Soda Rock received only a shrug.<\/p>\n

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But that shrug was very wrong.\u00a0 Maybe Soda Rock wasn\u2019t well known.\u00a0 Maybe their wines weren\u2019t to our taste.\u00a0 (Who knows?\u00a0 We\u2019ve never tried them.)\u00a0 But the owners, Ken and Diane Wilson, \u00a0had certainly invested time, money and love into their winery.\u00a0 Somebody liked their wines, because they did sell them.\u00a0 People\u2019s livelihoods depended on Soda Rock.\u00a0 We\u2019ve learned that the buildings on the winery were historic, albeit in need of repair, upkeep that will never be made now.<\/p>\n

Which of us is so wise, has such an elevated palate that we can dismiss their wines?\u00a0 Soda Rock was part of the community that collectively makes up Wine Country.\u00a0 Its loss diminishes us all.\u00a0 If they were making wine, that was good, because each winery in its own way is good.\u00a0 They\u2019re all good.<\/p>\n

We were pleased to read that Soda Rock is still offering tastings in their barn.\u00a0 That\u2019s a very good thing, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, we have all been reading about the terrible fires in California, especially about the Kincade fire that has afflicted Sonoma County.\u00a0 Sad to report, two wineries have been destroyed: Soda Rock and Firestone.\u00a0 As we read the papers about these two, our initial reaction was that we didn\u2019t know Soda Rock but that … Continue reading Editorial \u2013 They\u2019re All Good<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}