"TV images of burned homes and smoky skies ... made the area resemble a war zone rather than a bucolic paradise," Bill Swindell wrote for the Press Democrat.
"People saw some of the images in the newspaper or on TV, and they think all of wine country has been burned to the ground," Sonoma winemaker Steve Ledson told CNN in November 2017. "That couldn't be farther from the truth."
Source: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wine Industry Advisor