West Sonoma Coast AVA

Um, I think so.

I think Northern California, the West Sonoma coast, Mendocino, uh, are very extreme oceanic wine regions.

Tasmania, Margaret River for sure.

What else? Leda as well.

But that's not the case because there's other variables and other factors in play.

For example, let's see.

The probably the best way, and it's, it's a kind of local example for me from where I come from, is in Sonoma County, you have the West Sonoma Coast, which is very oceanic, and the vineyards there are within kind of 10 miles, 10 kilometers from the ocean.

But you also have vineyards that are up at elevation, up at, at 500, 600-meter elevation at these ridge lines, which are actually above the fog line for the most part.

That reminds me that, um, there's a g- great book called New California Wine by Jon Bonné, and he talks about how, um, Kendall Jackson and Robert Mondavi actually wanted to create a California Coastal AVA.

Because you say coast, or California Coast AVA, you say coast, and it has so many kind of romantic connotations to it, you know? Um, it obviously didn't get approved, but it also kind of, I think, ties into, say, the Sonoma Coast AVA, which many people have criticized as being too large, and I would certainly agree with that, and then hence why we now have the West Sonoma Coast AVA.

And, uh, when they were drawing up that, the proposal for Sonoma Coast, there was a prominent Sonoma producer that had vineyards that th- they wanted to make sure that they were included in the Sonoma Coast AVA to-

Oh, yeah