Pinot Country

regionAnderson Valley

From Esterlina Tasting Room in Mendocino County California.
From Esterlina Tasting Room in Mendocino County California. — Ethan Prater, CC BY 2.0

Mendocino's fog gap: a narrow valley along the Navarro River, open to the ocean at one end, redwoods at both edges. Sparkling houses came for the acid and stayed for the pinot.

Written down by US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (1983)

The story Cited

The 1983 petition counted 47 acres of pinot noir. By 2025 the AVA farmed about 2,457 acres across roughly 100 vineyards, and the wineries buying from them mostly sit outside the valley.

Facts

countryUnited States
levelava
established1983
regionAnderson Valley, California
where39.0000, -123.4000 (region) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Numbers somebody published

AVA area57600 acres — Anderson Valley AVA
Planted · 20252457 acres — Anderson Valley AVA
Pinot noir at the petition · 198347 acres — Anderson Valley AVA

Nothing in this table is estimated here. Where a figure is missing it is missing, and the row is not written.

Near here

Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.

Its kin

the vinePinot noirThe variety that took the valley over.regionRussian River ValleyThe other California fog corridor, an hour south.

Who points back

region · says of this pageCasablanca ValleyThe same trick with fog, a hemisphere away.

Sources

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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