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Wine of the Day, No. 884

A scintillating sauvignon blanc, from the North Coast AVA.

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Fredric Koeppel
Oct 13, 2025
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As an American Viticultural Area (AVA), North Coast is very large and largely meaningless. It’s a 5,000-square-mile, highly variegated region, that encompasses all of Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Lake, Solano and Mendocino counties — basically California’s wine-producing country north of San Francisco — and the multitudes of AVAs contained therein. The North Co…

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