The numbers are numbing: more than 5,700 homes, businesses, and wineries destroyed or damaged, more than 200,000 acres burned in total, and many vineyards singed and torched.
The numbers are numbing: more than 5,700 homes, businesses, and wineries destroyed or damaged, more than 200,000 acres burned in total, and many vineyards singed and torched.
After golf ballsized hailstones battered vines at Chteau dIssan in Bordeaux for two years in a row, its managing director was in the market for anything that might protect his grapes.