(Forbes) - Northern California experienced some the country’s worst fires this past October as flames, fed by the region's recent drought, which ravaged much of the north and some southern parts of the state. Luckily for most of the producers in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys, approximately 90 percent of the grapes were already harvested. Only a small amount, of primarily late-harvested Cabernet Sauvignon, was still on the vines in October.

While the bulk of producers choose not to make wines with those grapes as a precautionary measure, it is impossible to know how much wine might have been made or if those grapes were sold off as bulk wine.