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  Napa Valley

  California's Napa Valley is the best-known, most prestigious wine region in America.

  Napa Valley is not large: It’s about 30 miles long and 5 miles wide at its widest point, to put that in an international perspective, it’s only about one-eighth the size of France’s famous Bordeaux wine region.

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  Santa Cruz Mountains

  Santa Cruz Mountains is, as its name suggests, a mountainous AVA that sits between Monterey Bay and San Francisco.

  Pioneering vignerons began planting land in this troublesome terroir in the 1880s, led by Osea Perrone of Ridge Vineyards (producers of the iconic Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello)

  Santa Cruz Mountains AVA is the coldest Cabernet Sauvignon-producing region in California. The cool climate is more classically suited to the Burgundy varieties of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, which also thrive here.