5 regions, dozens of AVAs, 490+ tasting rooms. Explore the terroir, soils, climate, and history behind each, then jump straight to the map for that area.
California's largest and most geologically diverse red-wine appellation.
Transverse east-west valleys that funnel Pacific fog inland — California’s cool-climate Pinot and Chardonnay heartland.
A narrow 60-mile coastal ribbon — among the coolest, most maritime-influenced growing in California.
The wind-tunnel valleys of the Salinas — long growing seasons and Burgundian precision.
An intermediate-climate inland county with a famous vein of limestone.