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California Wine Atlas

Tulare County

County

Heat class II · 1991-2020 normals

Climate normals in three numbers

2,828°F-days

, Apr 1 – Oct 31

797 GridMET cells cover this region

II

106mm

season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31

26 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

6.6

pH, 1:1 water

12.7cm

, whole profile

116cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 590 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.6
4.0%
14.6%
available water
12.7cm
depth to restriction
116cm

Dominant

  • 4.5%
  • 4.1%
  • 3.6%
  • 3.3%
  • 3.1%

590 map units · soil described over 97.0% of the region’s area · 16.1% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 70% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation

CLAYSANDSILT

Sandy loam

60% sand · 25% silt · 15% clay

Sandier than 90% of California appellations and clayier than 9%. 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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