For the first time in several years, Napa Valley winemakers are heading into the summertime without a drought and with a dampened fire risk.
But after years of drought-fueled wildfires in the region, it wouldn't take much for that risk to increase.
"It's something that we've learned to live with," he said."The 2017 fire - that hillside right there was on fire. The only thing separating us from that fire was the Silverado Trail." "Whether it be for us - we have goats on our hillside grazing all year long - to taking out trees that could be potentially more fuel for the fires - we've all worked together as a community to kind of, lighten that load," he said."We do everything that we can to protect ourselves here and create as little to no fuel as possible on the vineyard, and that's really all that we can do, I think.
"Last year, severe drought period, we actually had almost full curing by April 1st. This year, fully cured by late May/June 1st - so a completely different scenario," he said."Generally, this could be a shorter season just because of the winter precipitation that we had," he said."Even though we've had a wet winter and our fire risk is currently low, it doesn't mean that we won't have potential for large fires in the fall or late summer," Clements said.
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