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Do you alive in London or nearby? Or do you accept affairs to be there in December? If so, I appetite you to accompany Jancis Robinson on December 2 at the 67 Pall Mall Club for a appropriate fundraiser benefitting California blaze victims. Learn added about the accident here.

On 8 October, Nick Solga and his adherent Katie Bower (pictured aloft with what charcoal of their house) were adequate at home and accepting accessible to go to bed afterwards a connected day touring wine country with Katie's parents, who were visiting from out of town. Their little French bi-weekly circled agilely in their bedchamber on the third attic of their townhome in Santa Rosa, California, as apprehension howled beyond their balustrade outside.

Solga, who offers PR and business casework to assorted wineries, recalled smelling smoke. 'I asked Katie if she had absolute out a candle or something, but she hadn't, so we went out on the balustrade and smelled smoke on the wind. We looked about to see if we could see any fire, but we couldn't.'

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The brace were afraid abundant that they didn't go to sleep. Instead they went out assimilate their artery area abounding of their neighbours were accomplishing agnate investigations and chattering agilely on the artery at midnight.

'There were academy kids sitting on the aback of cars and we asked them if they had apparent anything, and they said they hadn't but I bethink them adage how awesome it felt, and I bethink they were absolutely right. It was aloof eerie. One of my earlier neighbours said he had never apparent apprehension this able in all his years alive there', said Solga.

Katie was afraid abundant that she alleged the Santa Rosa Blaze Department. She was asked if she could see an alive fire. She said no, and was admonished not to alarm the blaze administration unless there was an alive fire.

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'We didn't go aback to bed', said Solga. 'It was 12.20 in the morning and we kept attractive out the window, and I got assimilate amusing media and started dabbling around. I bethink seeing a photo of a blaze on George Rose's Facebook folio [George Rose is the columnist amenable for abounding of the images we accept appear afresh - JR], and award the aboriginal alerts about association of Santa Rosa abreast Mark West Springs Road defective to adapt to booty cover. But it was quiet in our neighbourhood. We got no alerts, and no calls.'

And again at 12.55 Katie alleged to Nick from downstairs. '"The moon is red", she said, and I came bench to angle with her and watched it go from abysmal red to actuality absolutely blocked by smoke. Again I looked bottomward and saw that there was ash accumulating on the aback patio.'

'We went aback out front', connected Solga, 'and saw the orange afterglow over the hills abaft area Paradise Ridge Winery was, and that's back I absitively we bare to get out.'

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Read the blow of the adventure on JancisRobinson.Com. (free for anybody to apprehend this week).

This commodity is my account cavalcade at JancisRobinson.Com, Alder on America, and is accessible alone to subscribers of her web site. If you're not accustomed with the site, I appetite you to accord it a try. It's alone £8.50 a ages or £85 per year ($11/mo or $111 a year for you Americans) and able-bodied account the cost, abnormally because you basically get free, searchable admission to the Oxford Companion to Wine ($65) and the World Atlas of Wine ($50) as allotment of the cable costs. Click actuality to assurance up.

Image of Nick Solga and Katie Bower address of Nick Solga.

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