regionSanta Cruz Mountains
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
| country | United States |
|---|---|
| level | ava |
| established | 1981 |
| region | Santa Cruz Mountains, California |
| where | 37.1500, -122.0500 (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.
- 96.7 km — Santa Lucia Highlands region
- 97.9 km — Calera cellar
- 125 km — Los Carneros region
- 134.4 km — Hanzell Vineyards cellar
- 164.5 km — Russian River Valley region
- 165.7 km — Williams Selyem cellar
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
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.