regionSonoma Coast
An AVA big enough to be an argument: it runs from the Pacific bluffs inland across most of the county. The vines that gave it its name sit on the far western ridges, cold and steep, and growers there spent years carving out smaller names.
Written down by US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (1987)
Today Cited
Fort Ross-Seaview came out of it in 2011, West Sonoma Coast in 2022 — both drawn tighter and closer to the ocean.
Facts
| country | United States |
|---|---|
| level | ava |
| established | 1987 |
| region | Sonoma Coast, Sonoma County, California |
| where | 38.5000, -123.1000 (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.
- 17.5 km — Williams Selyem cellar
- 20.1 km — Russian River Valley region
- 60.7 km — Hanzell Vineyards cellar
- 61.3 km — Anderson Valley region
- 70.8 km — Los Carneros region
- 175.4 km — Santa Cruz Mountains region
Its kin
regionRussian River ValleyIts warmer inland neighbour.and of this page it says: The larger coastal AVA around it.the vinePinot noirGrown at the edge of where it will ripen at all.
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.