(WB) - Sonoma County wine producers who want to export their wines overseas are meeting buyers this week from as far away as India, Taiwan and Indonesia. 

Bordeaux-based Vinexpo Explorer invited about 70 buyers to Santa Rosa to the trade show to taste wine, visit wineries and learn more about Sonoma County.

“We wanted to elevate all Sonoma brands,” said Caroline Shaw, executive vice president at Jackson Family Wines and a member of the board of directors at Sonoma County Vintners, one of Vinexpo Explorer’s partners.

Organizers also wanted to show Sonoma County as a thriving community in spite of the deadly wildfires in October 2017.”

“Everybody worked together last fall,” said Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, told the buyers Monday. “We were able to get the grapes picked and the wine made. The wine is every bit as good as it has ever has been."