SFChron: Trouble in WineCountry

The natives are up in arms about the "Sonoma Aroma" up in the Sonoma wine country:
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Some of the responses are pretty funny.
Tom

Have you ever been through there when that's happening Tom? It's right powerful. Probably makes Kansas smell like a bed of roses.

Have you ever been through there when that's happening Tom? It's right powerful. Probably makes Kansas smell like a bed of roses.

Not so, Steve. The smell of cow$hit in Kansas in something outta this world. After all, we have special "terroir" in Kansas and it is a
well known fact that the Holstein cows are the bovine variety most sensitive to terroir...more so than those high-falutin' Jerseys they have in Sonoma!!!
Tom

[David M. Bueker]

Reminds me of some folks around Baltimore who bought houses on a golf course & then complained about the golfers yelling "FORE!" at 6:30 in the morning. They got the course restricted to no tee times prior to 8 AM, and 10 AM on Sundays.

The course closed. Real estate value plummeted.

Lived in Sonoma for 15 years and The Aroma was a standard feature. Closer you got to the dairy pastures, the more pungent.

Santa Rosans are the wimps of Sonoma County.

Napa doesn't have this problem because they've eliminated all farmers and dairy.

Besides, their sh$t doesn't stink. It's not allowed.

Lived in Sonoma for 15 years and The Aroma was a standard feature. Closer you got to the dairy pastures, the more pungent.

Santa Rosans are the wimps of Sonoma County.

Napa doesn't have this problem because they've eliminated all farmers and dairy.

Besides, their sh$t doesn't stink. It's not allowed.

Now that Santa Rosa is considered the most outlying suburb of the Bay Area, you've got a lot of residents who have about as much affinity for rural life as your average Manhattanite. Napa in my recollection never had many dairy farms -- they were more about horse ranches, but maybe I just didn't see the other side of the picture.

Mark Lipton

Napa doesn't have this problem because they've eliminated all farmers and dairy.

Besides, their sh$t doesn't stink. It's not allowed.

Well, technically, it can stink, but only if you've filed form 873-P-U and gotten a zoning variance from the county.

Been smelling it for a week now. Sorta like the garlic in the fall in the Santa Clara Valley. (Old fashioned name, I know!)

In Napa before grapes it was prunes which were mainly shipped over to Sonoma and everybody knows what happens when you eat too many prunes. When we changed over to grapes the Sonomans just couldn't stop the way their digestive systems worked so they continued to import prunes from other sources. The odor of Sonoma wafting on the breezes can be disturbing and if there is continued bitching they may decide to change their dietary needs. It's one of the many reasons we obtain better prices for our grapes than Sonoma

Hey, Lou, I picked prunes in the Santa Clara Valley when I was a kid!

Petaluma is one of my favorite cities, actually, but I am not sure I could live there because it is so pungeant! (Plus, their post war suburbs are so distinctly ugly and poorly designed! And they maintain their roads even more poorly than the rest of the County! It always amazes me to observe these monuments to architectural hubris and textbooks of design theory located on roads that have not been paved in twenty years. Textobbok private wealth and public penury.

Brian, what factors make Petaluma one of your favorite cities?