re: #54 Syrah

Eucalyptus brush and trees are very oily. It has a tendency to burn explosively. Australian wildfires can be very bad.

No shit. Those things go up like tiki torches. But the pines in the Cali mountains are similar. When it’s dry they get explosive in the advance of a firewall. And don’t forget that lots of folks in S. Cali have planted eucalyptus as “ornamentals”, though probably not (thank God) in the fire areas.