Pinot Country

regionSanta Cruz Mountains

36.00°N37.00°NCaleraCaleraSanta Cruz Mountains53 km
Santa Cruz Mountains, and what else this directory knows within 240 km.

Vines scattered through fault-ridge forest either side of the range, some facing the ocean, some facing the bay, none of them flat. Martin Ray planted pinot noir here when almost nobody in California would.

Written down by US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (1981)

Facts

countryUnited States
levelava
established1981
regionSanta Cruz Mountains, California
where37.1500, -122.0500 (region) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited
confidencemedium · 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.

Its kin

personMartin RayWho kept pinot noir alive on this ridge through the 1940s and 1950s.and of this page it says: The ridge he farmed.cloneMount Eden selectionThe selection that came off his vineyard and travelled.and of this page it says: The ridge it comes off.

Who points back

person · says of this pagePaul MassonWhere he planted.

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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