125

Approximate number of people who lost their homes in the devastating Sonoma, California, fires last fall who have donated ashes to The Sonoma Ash project. Begun by Sonoma ceramicist and art professor Gregory Roberts, the project involves gifting each former homeowner with a piece of pottery glazed with the ashes of their former home.

Wine Labels

“Age gives a wine a sense of beauty and satisfaction that it could never have had before when it was young. In our minds, we intuit that beauty and satisfaction as a feeling of completeness. Because so much of life is incomplete, an old wine is remarkable and moving.”

—Warren Winiarski
Founder of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars

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