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California Wine Atlas

Riverside County

County

Heat class V · 1991-2020 normals

Climate normals in three numbers

5,667°F-days

, Apr 1 – Oct 31

1125 GridMET cells cover this region

V

47mm

season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31

16 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

7.6

pH, 1:1 water

8.4cm

, whole profile

131cm

to

Somewhat excessively drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 960 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

7.6
0.5%
9.3%
available water
8.4cm
depth to restriction
131cm

Dominant

  • 14.7%
  • 9.7%
  • 7.0%
  • 4.2%
  • 3.1%

960 map units · soil described over 91.4% of the region’s area · 15.6% 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

Sandy loam

74% sand · 17% silt · 9% clay

Sandier than 99% of California appellations and clayier than 1%. Each grey point is one appellation’s topsoil; appellations nest, so this is a distribution of places rather than of land.

Plus 23% 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 4 producers are entered in the appellations within it:

Bearing acreage by variety

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Price per ton

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