regionLos Carneros
also: Carneros
The cold shoulder where Napa and Sonoma both run down to San Pablo Bay. Wind off the bay every afternoon, clay underfoot, and a harvest that starts weeks before the valley floor upstream.
Written down by US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (1983)
Facts
| country | United States |
|---|---|
| level | ava |
| established | 1983 |
| soil | shallow clay over bedrock |
| region | Los Carneros, California |
| where | 38.2500, -122.3500 (region) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited |
| confidence | medium · updated 2026-09-16 |
Near here
Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.
- 11 km — Hanzell Vineyards cellar
- 52 km — Russian River Valley region
- 54.3 km — Williams Selyem cellar
- 71 km — Sonoma Coast region
- 123.7 km — Anderson Valley region
- 124.9 km — Santa Cruz Mountains region
Its kin
the vinePinot noirGrown for still wine and for sparkling base, often on the same ranch.personAndré TchelistcheffWho argued for this ground when Napa wanted cabernet.and of this page it says: The cold shoulder he pointed people toward.
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.