Considering the quality time spent with three Stihl chainsaws over the past several days…a Witness Tree Chainsaw Pinot Noir would’ve been most appropriate. Electric came back late Thursday. A lot of neighbors are less fortunate. The winds really howled across the hills north of Philly, up to and beyond the Blue Mountain ridge north of the Lehigh Valley. Thousands of trees down with too many winding up on top of houses and power lines.
We were very lucky here. There’re powerless clusters of homes nearby where 100 ft trees fell like dominoes, taking out power lines, transformers, poles and worse. They’ll be fortunate to get electric back next week.
Storm wines:
2008 Evesham Wood Eola-Amity Pinot Noir
2007 Belle Pente Estate Reserve
2010 Tue-Boeuf Le Brin de Chevre
2011 Lapierre Morgon
2008 Burgaud Morgon CdPy VV (corked)
2008 Michel Gay Chorey-les-Beaune
2007 Giuseppe Mascarello Barbera D’Alba Scudetto
2001 Reignac
Thanks. The '02 Lapierre was one of the wines that really started to get me interested in wine overall and I’ve been following them, more or less, every since.
The only good thing about this is that my entir house is slightly below standard cellar temp so I do not have to worry about wine storage. Today we are finally having the Flannery rib cap that has passively thawed in my passive freezer, which we will have with some wine from my passive cellar.
That is the nature of it I think. The long recovery is never part of the news cycle, just the immediate carnage of the strike. I feel for those who are doing without. When Ike hit, I was without water for four weeks and did not have power for over a month.
Snowing in Princeton but not much wind. I feel for the people who still don’t have power. BTW, I was in Trenton today and met a woman who didn’t lose power----but her roof blew off! Nobody hurt, thank goodness.
and I’ve been following them, more or less, every since.