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California Wine Atlas

Alpine County

County

Heat class I · 1991-2020 normals

Climate normals in three numbers

994°F-days

, Apr 1 – Oct 31

143 GridMET cells cover this region

I

259mm

season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31

77 mm of it in the , Sep 1 – Oct 31

Warm and cool vintages since 1980

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Rain across the season, and at harvest

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The boundary

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Measured vineyard area

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Drought categories, year by year

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What's in the ground

6.1

pH, 1:1 water

7.9cm

, whole profile

93cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 190 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.1
3.5%
12.3%
available water
7.9cm
depth to restriction
93cm

Dominant

  • 15.1%
  • 8.1%
  • 7.5%
  • 7.2%
  • 6.6%

190 map units · soil described over 93.9% of the region’s area · 17.9% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 77% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation

CLAYSANDSILT

Sandy loam

66% sand · 22% silt · 12% clay

Sandier than 96% of California appellations and clayier than 3%. Each grey point is one appellation’s topsoil; appellations nest, so this is a distribution of places rather than of land.

Plus 41% rock fragments by volume, which the triangle does not describe — the three fractions are of the fine-earth material only.

Elevation, slope and aspect

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Bearing acreage by variety

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Price per ton

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