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California Wine Atlas

San Benito County

County

Heat class III · 1991-2020 normals

Climate normals in three numbers

3,401°F-days

, Apr 1 – Oct 31

253 GridMET cells cover this region

III

61mm

season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31

21 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

7.0

pH, 1:1 water

15.9cm

, whole profile

106cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 414 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

7.0
2.0%
26.8%
available water
15.9cm
depth to restriction
106cm

Dominant

  • 12.7%
  • 9.4%
  • 7.7%
  • 5.3%
  • 5.0%

414 map units · soil described over 86.9% of the region’s area · 15.4% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 80% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation

CLAYSANDSILT

Loam

40% sand · 33% silt · 27% clay

Sandier than 42% of California appellations and clayier than 82%. Each grey point is one appellation’s topsoil; appellations nest, so this is a distribution of places rather than of land.

Plus 8% 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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