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Borden Ranch

Sub-AVA · Sacramento County · District 9, 11, 17 — 74.19% of this appellation; also in San Joaquin (25.81%)

27 CFR 9.196 · established 2006-07-17

Heat class V · 1991-2020 normals

Climate normals in three numbers

4,081°F-days

, Apr 1 – Oct 31

28 GridMET cells cover this region

V

100mm

season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31

28 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

Sacramento County — not Borden Ranch

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What's in the ground

5.9

pH, 1:1 water

10.4cm

, whole profile

65cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 83 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

5.9
1.3%
16.5%
available water
10.4cm
depth to restriction
65cm

Dominant

  • 23.5%
  • 17.2%
  • 13.1%
  • 8.6%
  • 6.5%

83 map units · soil described over 98.9% of the region’s area · 0.9% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 90% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation

CLAYSANDSILT

Loam

49% sand · 34% silt · 16% clay

Sandier than 74% of California appellations and clayier than 12%. Each grey point is one appellation’s topsoil; appellations nest, so this is a distribution of places rather than of land.

Plus 16% 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

Sacramento County · District 9, 11, 17 — 74.19% of this appellation; also in San Joaquin (25.81%)

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Price per ton

Sacramento County · District 9, 11, 17 — 74.19% of this appellation; also in San Joaquin (25.81%)

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The appellation in federal law

The boundary, in the government’s own words (318 words)

(c) Boundary. The Borden Ranch viticultural area is located in Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties, California, and is entirely within the Lodi viticultural area (27 CFR 9.107). The Borden Ranch viticultural area boundary is as follows: (1) The beginning point is on the Lockeford map at the intersection of Liberty Road and Elliott Road at the southwest corner of section 36, T5N, R7E. From the beginning point, proceed north 2 miles on Elliot Road, which becomes Clay Station Road upon crossing the Sacramento-San Joaquin County line at Dry Creek, to Clay Station Road's intersection with Simmerhorn Road, at the southeast corner of section 23, T5N, R7E (Clay Quadrangle); then (2) Proceed west 2 miles on Simmerhorn Road to its intersection with Alabama Road at the southwest corner of section 22, T5N, R7E (Clay Quadrangle); then (3) Proceed north 2 miles on Alabama Road to its intersection with Borden Road at the northwest corner of section 15, T5N, R7E (Clay Quadrangle); then (4) Proceed west 1 mile on Borden Road to its intersection with Alta Mesa Road at the southwest corner of section 9, T5N, R7E (Clay Quadrangle); then (5) Proceed north 1.35 miles on Alta Mesa Road, crossing State Route 104, to Alta Mesa Road's intersection with the Laguna tributary along the western boundary line of section 4, T5N, R7E (Clay Quadrangle); then (6) Proceed easterly (upstream) about 16.5 miles along the meandering Laguna tributary, crossing over the southeast corner of the Sloughhouse map, to the Laguna's intersection with the Sacramento-Amador County line, 0.75 mile south of the Ione Road, T6N, R9E (Carbondale Quadrangle); then (7) Proceed south and then southeast about 10.8 miles along the Sacramento-Amador and Sacramento-San Joaquin County lines, crossing over the Goose Creek map, to the County line's intersection with Liberty Road, section 32, T5N, R9E (Clements Quadrangle); and (8) Proceed west about 9.3 miles west along Liberty Road, returning to the beginning point.