The Vineyard on Rattlesnake Hill
In 2017, wildfires swept through Sonoma County, California, and scorched thousands of acres of premium vineyard land. Among them was a small family operation on...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19.
In 2017, wildfires swept through Sonoma County, California, and scorched thousands of acres of premium vineyard land. Among them was a small family operation on Rattlesnake Hill that the Martinelli family had tended for four generations. The old-vine Zinfandel — some plants over a hundred years old, with root systems reaching thirty feet deep — stood blackened and skeletal against the smoky sky.…
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