You may be surprised to learn that the first wine appellation in the world based on wind patterns can be found in Sonoma County, California. Called the ‘Petaluma Gap’, it achieved this name because of ...

The federal government on Thursday recognized the Petaluma Gap as the newest American Viticultural Area (AVA), giving Sonoma County its 18th such wine appellation and providing another reminder of its ...

Some of the women who breathe life into Petaluma Gap - Kimberly Pfendler of Pfendler Wines, Kerith Overstreet of Bruliam Wines, Ana Keller of Keller Estate, Erica Stancliff of Pfendler and Trombetta ...

Where’s the intersection between wine and politics? A proposal for a new AVA—American Viticultural Area—is as close as it gets. Rickey Stancliff, owner of Trombetta Family Wines (and whose daughter, ...

Follow the fog and rushing wind that scurries off the coast of Bodega Bay into the nooks and valleys of southwest Sonoma County, and you’ll find yourself in the Petaluma Gap, a 200,000-acre ...

Petaluma Gap has been named as California’s newest American Viticultural Area (AVA). Located in northern Marin County and southern Sonoma County, the region comprises approximately 200,000 acres, with ...

Do wind and fog have flavor? That's debatable, but you can taste their influence on wine from one of the nation's newest grape-growing areas - the Petaluma Gap - in northern California. This new ...

At long last, wine growers in the Petaluma Gap area will be able to put "Petaluma Gap" on their wine labels, as the Petaluma Gap officially becomes California's newest American Viticultural Area (AVA) ...