The Holiday Wine Cellar actually has a very nice wine selection downstairs, we try and stop in whenever we find ourselves in Escondido. They have some very rare wines and many very expensive wines, a nice place to shop if you want something for a special occasion.
As for the area of Escondido where the home is located, the thing that would concern me most is something that not many people know about: the old Chatham Brothers Barrel Yard located at 2257 Bernardo Ave. It is a superfund cleanup site – drive by and you’ll see vent tubes sticking out of the ground…it’s eery. The site used to be a barrel yard where trichloroethylene, benzene and polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs leaked into the ground water.
This leak formed a plume that headed southward towards Lake Hodges. This threat to the area water source lead to its inclusion on the superfund cleanup list.
As you’ll see, the plume is a good 2000 ft from that house. People appear to be living just fine in the area, but it’s something you should be aware of before you buy in case it would affect your decision.
