Why Amador's old Zinfandel survived on its own roots, what the Shenandoah Valley does to the grape, and the 1968 bottle that restarted the county.
Read this piece Amador County Wine Region Guide: Zinfandel and Granite
How elevation replaces the ocean as a cooling mechanism across 2.6 million acres of granite, and what that does to the wine.
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Gravel soils, an east-west valley open to the Bay, and the land-use bargain that kept vines inside a Bay Area suburb.
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The Salinas Valley opens at its cold end, so wind runs inland all summer. Here is how that one fact builds Monterey's thermal rainbow of appellations.
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How the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta cools a hot valley, why Lodi's sandy soil kept century-old vines on their own roots, and what the wines taste like.
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Mendocino County explained by distance: cool coastal Anderson Valley, the warmer inland floor around Ukiah, and the county's organic farming record.
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Its valleys run east to west instead of north to south. That one geographic accident explains every appellation and grape in the county.
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The Salinas River splits Paso Robles into two regions with different soil, rainfall and grapes. Here is what changes as you cross it.
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Sonoma has two openings in the coast range that let cold air in. Learn them and its nineteen appellations stop being a list to memorize.
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Why one thirty-mile valley holds sixteen appellations, and how valley floor, benchland and mountain sites change the same Cabernet.
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