Malibu Coast

Appears in
Oxford Companion to Wine

By Jancis Robinson

Published 2006

  • About

ava in southern california approved in 2014 for a 50-mile/80 km stretch of coast north of Santa Monica encompassing the previously established Malibu-Newton Canyon and Saddle Rock-Malibu AVAS in Los Angeles county. About 50 growers share barely 200 acres/81 ha of predominantly Cabernet vines.