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California Wine Atlas

San Mateo County

County

Heat class I · 1991-2020 normals

Climate normals in three numbers

2,462°F-days

, Apr 1 – Oct 31

97 GridMET cells cover this region

I

raw 4 km GridMET would say II

126mm

season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31

39 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

6.2

pH, 1:1 water

14.3cm

, whole profile

102cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 318 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.2
2.7%
22.5%
available water
14.3cm
depth to restriction
102cm

Dominant

  • 17.2%
  • 6.6%
  • 6.4%
  • 6.2%
  • 6.0%

318 map units · soil described over 74.0% of the region’s area · 17.4% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 84% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation

CLAYSANDSILT

Loam

44% sand · 33% silt · 23% clay

Sandier than 61% of California appellations and clayier than 51%. Each grey point is one appellation’s topsoil; appellations nest, so this is a distribution of places rather than of land.

Plus 14% 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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