Pinot Country

count it upWhat this adds up to

Every number on this page comes out of the corpus at build time. Nothing is decorative and nothing is rounded to flatter.

143
records
34
regions mapped
3,055
cellars on the map
386
kin links
62
measured numbers

Pinot noir lives in a band, and then breaks it

45°S30°S15°S0°N15°N30°N45°NequatorAnderson Valley — 39.0°NYamhill-Carlton — 45.3°NEola-Amity Hills — 45.0°NRibbon Ridge — 45.4°NSonoma Coast — 38.5°NWillamette Valley — 45.2°NWillamette ValleyDundee Hills — 45.3°NRussian River Valley — 38.5°NLos Carneros — 38.2°NSanta Cruz Mountains — 37.1°NSanta Lucia Highlands — 36.5°NSta. Rita Hills — 34.6°NSta. Rita HillsSanta Maria Valley — 34.9°NSanta Maria ValleyOkanagan Valley — 49.8°NFinger Lakes — 42.7°NCasablanca Valley — 33.3°SSancerre — 47.3°NChampagne — 49.0°NCôte Chalonnaise — 46.8°NCôte de Beaune — 47.0°NBurgundy — 47.0°NBurgundyCôte de Nuits — 47.2°NJura — 46.9°NAhr — 50.5°NAhrAlsace — 48.2°NBaden — 48.1°NAlto Adige — 46.5°NHemel-en-Aarde — 34.4°SMornington Peninsula — 38.4°SYarra Valley — 37.6°STasmania — 41.6°SCentral Otago — 45.0°SCentral OtagoMarlborough — 41.5°SMartinborough — 41.2°S34 regions, ordered west to east · each dot is one appellation in this directory

Furthest from the equator: Ahr at 50.5°N and Central Otago at 45.0°S. Closest to it: Sta. Rita Hills at 34.6°N — the latitude of Beirut, growing a grape that wants Dijon, because the valley runs east–west and the Pacific walks in every morning.

America drew 284 lines on the ground

1980s: 1041041980s1990s: 32321990s2000s: 60602000s2010s: 54542010s2020s: 34342020s

American Viticultural Areas by the decade of the Federal Register notice that made them, from 27 CFR part 9. The 1980s rush is the first generation of petitions; the ones since are mostly smaller areas carved out of larger ones.

Who is kin to who

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Every link a record makes, by the kind of page at each end. Regions point at everything; the table points back at the ground it came off.

The week, honestly

945 of 3,055 cellars name a single day either way. 511 say they open on Sunday, 434 say they close, and 2,110 have told nobody this project can read. Unknown is drawn dashed and counted as unknown. open closed not published

Records by kind

kindrecords
region34
cellar15
person14
word14
practice11
clone10
table10
vineyard9
org8
vine7
story6
event5

Everything somebody measured

Each row names the source that published it. Nothing here is estimated.

whatvalue
Adelsheim Vineyard — Estate vineyards200 acres (2013)
Ahr — Vineyard558 ha (2008)
Anderson Valley — AVA area57600 acres
Anderson Valley — Planted2457 acres (2025)
Anderson Valley — Pinot noir at the petition47 acres (1983)
Baden — Vineyard15906 ha (2008)
Baden — Spätburgunder5855 ha (2008)
Bien Nacido — Planted800 acres
Bien Nacido — Pinot noir250 acres
Bien Nacido — Annual rainfall13 inches
Burgundy — Length of the Côte d'Or40 km
Burgundy — Pinot noir on the Côte d'Or escarpment4500 ha
Burgundy — Appellations100 AOC
Burgundy — Village appellations42 AOC
Central Otago — Planted1930 ha
Central Otago — Share of plantings given to pinot noir80 %
Chambertin — Gevrey-Chambertin planted to pinot noir310 ha
Champagne — Vineyard33500 ha (2008)
Champagne — Villages inside the boundary319 (2008)
Champagne — Growers selling grapes14000 (2008)
Clos de Vougeot — Appellation area50.6 ha
Clos de Vougeot — In production47.3 ha
Clos de Vougeot — Owners80 (2000)
Corton — In production94.78 ha (2008)
Corton — Wine made2984 hl (2008)
Côte de Beaune — Red grand cru wines in the district1 the Cortons
Côte de Nuits — Communes14
Côte de Nuits — Red grand cru appellations, of Burgundy's 2524
Domaine Leroy — Vines23 ha
Dundee Hills — AVA area6940 acres (2004)
Dundee Hills — Planted1300 acres (2004)
Hanzell Vineyards — Pinot noir first planted2 acres (1953)
Jura — Vineyard1950 ha
Jura — Wineries230
La Tâche — In production5.03 ha (2008)
La Tâche — Bottles produced12700 bottles (2008)
La Tâche — Minimum planting density9000 vines/ha
Maison Louis Jadot — Vineyards controlled270 ha
Musigny — In production10.32 ha (2008)
Musigny — Planted to white0.66 ha (2008)
Romanée-Conti — In production1.88 ha (2008)
Romanée-Conti — Bottles produced3500 bottles (2008)
Russian River Valley — Pinot noir planted12000 acres (2003)
Santa Maria Valley — AVA area after the 2010 expansion116273 acres (2010)
Santa Maria Valley — Cultivated vineyard7500 acres
Santa Maria Valley — Average summer temperature75 °F
Santa Maria Valley — Annual rainfall in non-drought years14 inches
Santa Maria Valley — Latitude34.9 °N
Santa Maria tri-tip — IMPS / NAMP specification185C
Santa Maria tri-tip — Untrimmed weight5 lb
Santa Maria tri-tip — Internal temperature for medium-rare130–135 °F
Sokol Blosser — Estate vineyard89 acres
Sokol Blosser — Photovoltaic array24 kW (2006)
Sta. Rita Hills — AVA area at designation30720 acres (2001)
Tri-tip over red oak — Latitude of the valley34.9 °N
Tri-tip over red oak — Average summer temperature75 °F
Tri-tip over red oak — AVA established1981-08-05 (1981)
Tri-tip over red oak — Tri-tip specification185C
Tri-tip over red oak — Santa Maria Club stag barbecue, diners a sitting700 people (1931)
Willamette Valley — AVA area3430000 acres (1983)
Willamette Valley — AVAs inside it11
Willamette Valley — Oregon pinot noir24729 acres (2022)
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