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California Wine Atlas

San Ysidro District

AVA · Santa Clara County · District 6

27 CFR 9.130 · established 1990-11-15

Heat class III · 1991-2020 normals

Climate normals in three numbers

3,190°F-days

, Apr 1 – Oct 31

4 GridMET cells cover this region

III

raw 4 km GridMET would say IV

81mm

season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31

29 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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Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.

Measured vineyard area

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Drought categories, year by year

Santa Clara County — not San Ysidro District

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What's in the ground

6.5

pH, 1:1 water

23.7cm

, whole profile

179cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 28 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.5
1.8%
29.6%
available water
23.7cm
depth to restriction
179cm

Dominant

  • 28.4%
  • 25.5%
  • 14.5%
  • 10.3%
  • 7.6%

28 map units · soil described over 99.0% of the region’s area · 1.1% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 19% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation

CLAYSANDSILT

Clay loam

34% sand · 36% silt · 30% clay

Sandier than 15% of California appellations and clayier than 88%. 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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Bearing acreage by variety

Santa Clara County · District 6

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Price per ton

Santa Clara County · District 6

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The appellation in federal law

The boundary, in the government’s own words (376 words)

(c) Boundary. The San Ysidro District viticultural area is located in Santa Clara County, California, within the Santa Clara Valley viticultural area. The boundary is as follows: (1) The beginning point is the intersection of California State Highway 152 and Ferguson Road with an un-named wash, or intermittent stream, on the Gilroy, Calif., U.S.G.S. map; (2) From the beginning point, the boundary follows the wash northeast as it runs co-incident with the old Grant boundary for approximately 3,800 feet; (3) The boundary then follows the wash when it diverges from the old Grant boundary and continues approximately 2,300 feet in a northeasterly direction, crosses and recrosses Crews Road, then follows the wash southeast until the wash turns northeast in section 35, T.10S., R.4E., on the Gilroy Hot Springs, Calif., map; (4) The boundary then diverges from the wash, continuing in a straight line in a southeasterly direction, across an unimproved road, until it intersects with the 600 foot contour line. (5) The boundary then proceeds in a straight line at about the 600 foot elevation in a southeasterly direction until it meets the minor northerly drainage of the San Ysidro Creek; (6) The boundary then follows the minor northerly drainage of San Ysidro Creek southeast for approximately 2,000 feet to the seasonal pond adjacent to Canada Road; (7) From the seasonal pond, the boundary follows the southerly drainage of San Ysidro Creek for about 1,300 feet until it reaches the southwest corner of section 36, T.10S., R.4E.; (8) The boundary then continues in a straight line in a southerly direction across Canada Road for approximately 900 feet until it intersects with the 600 foot contour line; (9) The boundary follows the 600 foot contour line for approximately 6,000 feet in a generally southeasterly direction, diverges from the contour line and continues southeast another 1,200 feet until it meets an unimproved road near the north end of a seasonal pond on the San Felipe, Calif., U.S.G.S. map; (10) The boundary follows the unimproved road to Bench Mark 160 at Highway 152. (11) The boundary then follows Highway 152 in a northwesterly direction across the northeast corner of the Chittenden, Calif., U.S.G.S. map, and back to the beginning point at the junction of Ferguson Road and Highway 152.