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California Wine Atlas

Lake County

County

Heat class III · 1991-2020 normals

Climate normals in three numbers

3,343°F-days

, Apr 1 – Oct 31

252 GridMET cells cover this region

III

171mm

season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31

53 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

6.3

pH, 1:1 water

10.8cm

, whole profile

88cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 270 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.3
1.8%
22.1%
available water
10.8cm
depth to restriction
88cm

Dominant

  • 29.0%
  • 10.1%
  • 5.5%
  • 5.3%
  • 4.8%

270 map units · soil described over 93.2% of the region’s area · 8.9% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 83% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation

CLAYSANDSILT

Loam

44% sand · 34% silt · 22% clay

Sandier than 58% of California appellations and clayier than 49%. Each grey point is one appellation’s topsoil; appellations nest, so this is a distribution of places rather than of land.

Plus 24% 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.

The roster places a producer in the appellation it names, never in a county — a winery’s address is a street in an AVA, and filing it under the county would be a claim about which of an AVA’s counties it sits in. So this region has no roster of its own, and 1 producers are entered in the appellations within it:

Bearing acreage by variety

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Price per ton

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