The Glass Fire in northern California’s Sonoma County and Napa Valley wine country that burned down the Chateau Boswell more than quadrupled in size overnight to 11,000 acres on Monday.
- Chateau Boswell in St. Helena Napa Valley was destroyed Sunday in the Glass Fire
- It’s one of only a handful of family-run wineries in the famous California wine region and opened in 1979
- Fire has also ravaged the likes of Castello di Amorosa and Venge, plus Merus Wines and Davis Estates were under imminent threat
- Officials said 64 other wineries were within the evacuation or evacuation warning areas
- The Black Rock Inn bed and breakfast was also up in flames as 1,000 firefighters struggled to contain the blaze
- Around 2,000 people have been told to leave their homes, and a further 3,000 to prepare to do so as the wildfires ripped into Santa Rosa and St. Helena
- California wildfires have scorched more than 3.7 million acres so far in 2020, far exceeding any single year
Source: Napa Valley’s Chateau Boswell winery destroyed by Glass Fire | Daily Mail Online