Calistoga
Sub-AVA · Napa County · District 4
27 CFR 9.209 · established 2009-12-08 · last amended 2024-10-16
Heat class IV · 1991-2020 normals
Climate normals in three numbers
, Apr 1 – Oct 31
10 GridMET cells cover this region
season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31
52 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
Napa County — not Calistoga
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What's in the ground
6.1
pH, 1:1 water
15.0cm
, whole profile
132cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 44 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 33.9%
- 21.9%
- 12.9%
- 10.5%
- 3.6%
44 map units · soil described over 97.5% of the region’s area · 9.8% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 54% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation
Loam
38% sand · 41% silt · 21% clay
Sandier than 30% of California appellations and clayier than 40%. Each grey point is one appellation’s topsoil; appellations nest, so this is a distribution of places rather than of land.
Plus 15% 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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Producers
A curated roster, not a census — only source-verified entries appear, 2772 published across the atlas.
Bearing acreage by variety
Napa County · District 4
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Price per ton
Napa County · District 4
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The appellation in federal law
The boundary, in the government’s own words (515 words)
(c) Boundary. The Calistoga viticultural area is located in northwestern Napa County, California. The boundary beginning point is on the Mark West Springs map at the point where the Napa-Sonoma county line intersects Petrified Forest Road in section 3, T8N/R7W. From this point, the boundary: (1) Continues northeasterly along Petrified Forest Road approximately 1.9 miles to the road's intersection with the 400-foot contour line near the north bank of Cyrus Creek approximately 1,000 feet southwest of the intersection of Petrified Forest Road and State Route 128 on the Calistoga map; (2) Proceeds generally east-southeast (after crossing Cyrus Creek) along the 400-foot contour line to its intersection with Ritchey Creek in section 16, T8N/R6W; (3) Follows Ritchey Creek northeast approximately 0.3 mile to its intersection with State Route 29 at the 347-foot benchmark; (4) Proceeds east-southeast along State Route 29 approximately 0.3 mile to its intersection with a light-duty road labeled Bale Lane; (5) Follows Bale Lane northeast approximately 0.7 mile to its intersection with the Silverado Trail; (6) Proceeds northwest along the Silverado Trail approximately 1,500 feet to its intersection with an unmarked driveway on the north side of the Silverado Trail near the 275-foot benchmark; (7) Continues northeasterly along the driveway for 300 feet to its intersection with another driveway, and then continues north-northeast in a straight line to the 400-foot contour line; (8) Follows the 400-foot contour line easterly approximately 0.6 mile to its intersection with the eastern edge of the Calistoga map, denoted by a north-south longitude line labeled as longitude 122 degrees, 30 minutes; (9) Continues north along the longitude line approximately 0.5 mile to its intersection with the 880-foot contour line in section 2, T8N/R6W; (10) Follows the meandering 880-foot contour line northwesterly, crossing onto the Calistoga map in section 2, T8N/R6W, and continues along the 880-foot contour line through section 3, T8N/R6W, sections 34 and 35, T9N/R6W, (with a brief return to the St. Helena map in section 35), to the 880-contour line's intersection with Biter Creek in the northeast quadrant of section 34, T9N/R6W; (11) Continues westerly along the meandering 880-foot contour line around Dutch Henry Canyon in section 28, T9N/R6W, and Simmons Canyon in section 29, T9N/R6W, to the contour line's first intersection with the R7W/R6W range line in section 30, T9N/R6W; (12) Continues northerly along the meandering 880-foot contour line across the two forks of Horns Creek and through Hoisting Works Canyon in section 19, T9N/R6W, crossing between the Calistoga and Detert Reservoir maps, to the contour line's intersection with Garnett Creek in section 13, T9N/R7W, on the Detert Reservoir map; (13) Continues westerly along the meandering 880-foot contour line, crossing between the Calistoga and Detert Reservoir maps in sections 13 and 14, T9N/R7W, and in the region labeled “Mallacomes or Moristul y Plan de Agua Caliente,” to the contour line's intersection with the Napa-Sonoma county line approximately 1.1 miles northeast of State Route 128 in the “Mallacomes or Moristul y Plan de Agua Caliente” region, T9N/R7W, of the Mark Springs West map; and (14) Proceeds southerly along the Napa-Sonoma county line to the beginning point.