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California Wine Atlas

San Joaquin County

County

Heat class IV · 1991-2020 normals

Climate normals in three numbers

3,968°F-days

, Apr 1 – Oct 31

258 GridMET cells cover this region

IV

raw 4 km GridMET would say V

70mm

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

6.8

pH, 1:1 water

20.4cm

, whole profile

143cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 281 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.8
3.7%
25.8%
available water
20.4cm
depth to restriction
143cm

Dominant

  • 5.4%
  • 4.8%
  • 4.8%
  • 4.3%
  • 4.2%

281 map units · soil described over 96.0% of the region’s area · 5.0% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 46% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation

CLAYSANDSILT

Loam

42% sand · 32% silt · 26% clay

Sandier than 54% of California appellations and clayier than 79%. Each grey point is one appellation’s topsoil; appellations nest, so this is a distribution of places rather than of land.

Plus 5% 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 5 producers are entered in the appellations within it:

Bearing acreage by variety

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