Lake County

Lake County, smallest viticultural district among california’s north coast counties and among the least understood. In this warm inland district east of Mendocino county and north of Napa County, a vigorous but short-lived 19th century industry died out with prohibition, leaving scant historic guidance to the growers who restored vineyards to the region during the 1970s. The county’s 9,000 acres/3,642 ha of vines and its small population of 30 wineries is concentrated in the Clear Lake ava.