The last time wine contributor Ray Fister joined Lake Effect's Bonnie North, he talked about the impact that a historically bad wildfire season in California was having on the wine grape industry.
It’s been several months since those fires, and Fister says, "It's amazing how things have come back" in the Napa and Sonoma regions.
Recently back from a trip to northern California, he notes that many of the wineries were spared because of their vines:
Ray Fister is the co-creator and voice of the wine blog and podcast Life Between the Vines and the owner and engineer of 5th Floor Recording Company.