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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Sonoma County, California, Temecula, California, Livermore, California, Healdsburg, California, Paso Robles, California, Judgment of Paris, Russian River, Sonoma County wine, Mendocino County wine, History of California wine, Napa Valley Wine Train, Jean-Louis Vignes, Wine Country, Paul Draper, Sonoma Valley, California State Route 128, Anderson Valley, Pierre Sainsevain, Bennett Valley, Oakville, California, Santa Clara Valley, Santa Ynez Valley, Kenwood, California, Winkler scale, Rutherford, California, Lake County wine, Pacheco Pass, Mission, Cucamonga Valley, Napa County wine, Petaluma Gap, Angelica wine, Wine Institute, UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology, Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, California Association of Winegrape Growers, American Society for Enology and Viticulture. Excerpt: Sonoma County, located on the northern coast of the U.S. state of California, is the largest (in area) and northernmost of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. Its population as of July 2008 is estimated at 466,741 by the United States Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Its population at the 2010 census was 483,878. Its largest city and county seat is Santa Rosa. Sonoma is the southwestern county of California's Wine Country region, which also includes Napa, Mendocino, and Lake counties. It has 13 approved American Viticultural Areas and over 250 wineries. In 2002, Sonoma County ranked as the 32nd county in the United States in agricultural production. As early as 1920, Sonoma County was ranked as the eighth most agriculturally productive U.S county and a leading producer of poultry products, hops, grapes, prunes, apples and dairy products, largely due to the abundance of high quality irrigation water. More than 7.4 million tourists visit each year, spending more than $1 billion in 2006. Sonoma County is ...
