The california wildfires in 2017 and 2018 impacted small wineries and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses.
Donelan wines fire.
He saw the industrial park at coffey lane in flames blocked off by fire trucks.
The flames pulled up short a block west and two blocks north.
A thankful wine life from aspen daily news november 16 2017.
Donelan family wines bet on syrah from sonoma from huffington post september 27 2017.
10 american wines for the thanksgiving table from forbes november 21 2017.
In the end the tubbs fire incinerated more than 2 800 buildings in santa rosa but the donelan family winery was not one of them.
Wine as a journey from aspen daily news august 4 2017.
The famed 41 year old chateau boswell winery in napa valley california was destroyed during the glass fire on sunday evening according to cnn affiliate kpix.
On the evening of october 8th a series of fires broke out in california s wine country that engulfed hundreds of thousands of acres in napa sonoma and mendocino counties.
Donelan wines their winery actually was shockingly unscathed despite being super close to the tubbs fire which destroyed nearby coffey park.
Joe judge joe nielsen joe and cushing donelan at the judge vineyard in sonoma.
Sonoma syrah tour from san francisco chronicle august 6 2017.
The family did lose one of their estate vineyards to the fire.
Joe donelan has always talked about his career in wine as a journey but this fall it became more like a nightmare.
Family owned amazing wine love their syrahs passaggio wines did not suffer any fire damage.
The 2017 tubbs fire.
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After the 2017 devastating tubbs fire hit the knights valley the family decided to replant syrah and add grenache mourvèdre viognier and cabernet sauvignon grapes to the mix.
