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December 21, 2015
The Forgotten Kingpins Who Conspired to Save California Wine
After the San Francisco earthquake and during the fire that followed, another two million gallons of wine were salvaged
from the C.W.A.’s main headquarters, at Third and Bryant Streets, but not before “the wooden tanks and casks came apart in the fire storm,” as Sullivan describes it. The spilled wine might have washed into the streets as it had at other warehouses, but a “plugged sewer line” and the building’s solid concrete walls and floor kept the sloshing wine within the structure. Suddenly, the building itself had become a wine cellar, which enabled the C.W.A. to pump the precious liquid through fire hoses to a small fleet of barges, which were towed to Stockton in the San Joaquin Valley, where the wine was distilled into brandy. | Collectors Weekly
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 21, 2015 1:51 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.