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California Wine Atlas

Colusa County

County

Heat class V · 1991-2020 normals

Climate normals in three numbers

4,104°F-days

, Apr 1 – Oct 31

218 GridMET cells cover this region

V

97mm

season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31

30 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

7.1

pH, 1:1 water

21.6cm

, whole profile

139cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 213 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

7.1
1.6%
32.9%
available water
21.6cm
depth to restriction
139cm

Dominant

  • 17.1%
  • 13.1%
  • 5.4%
  • 4.9%
  • 4.6%

213 map units · soil described over 99.2% of the region’s area · 4.8% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 45% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation

CLAYSANDSILT

Clay loam

30% sand · 37% silt · 33% clay

Sandier than 5% of California appellations and clayier than 95%. Each grey point is one appellation’s topsoil; appellations nest, so this is a distribution of places rather than of land.

Plus 7% 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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