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"I spoke with Noah Dorrance, owner of Healdsburg's Reeve Wines, who says he can already taste the effects of smoke on grapes from northern Sonoma County and expects similar issues in Mendocino County; he warns it could tank all the wine he planned on making this year, describing the grapes as having an "ashy, barbecued flavor, kind of like a campfire," and stressing that smoke taint is worse the longer grapes remain on the vine: "It's been less than a week... It's only going to get worse." - Eve Batey