Few districts have more of the character of the old California than Sonoma County, and grapes and wine have been integral to its history. As early as 1812, Russian colonists planted and cultivated grapes at Ft. Ross on the Coast. But it was the Spanish...
"Warm days, cool nights." This descriptive phrase appears on such a variety of wine labels and brochures that one would believe that the entire state of California has these ideal grape growing conditions. Coastal climates do have warm days with cooler...
Sonoma Mountain is a subset AVA of Sonoma Valley. Sonoma Mountain is a freestanding mountain range that starts gently enough almost from San Pablo Bay and extends, arching sharply upward midway up the valley at around Glen Ellen, and then gradually descends...
Called the "Little Sonoma County," the Sonoma Valley area is a patchwork of viticultural areas and diverse geographics. There are mountains, foothills, plains and valleys, all of varying soil types and contrasting climatic conditions. As the fog which...