The San Francisco Bay AVA is a large American Viticultural Area centered on the

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...

of Northern California. The San Francisco Bay AVA includes the counties of

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, Contra Costa, Santa Clara,

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

and San Mateo as well as parts of Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. The AVA was established by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) in 1999 and encompasses over . The AVA falls within the larger

Central Coast AVA The Central Coast AVA is a large American Viticultural Area in the U.S. state of California that spans from Santa Barbara County in the south to the San Francisco Bay Area in the north. The boundaries of the Central Coast include portions of six ...

and contains five designated sub-region AVAs within its boundaries; Lamorinda AVA,

Livermore Valley AVA The Livermore Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area in Alameda County, California, surrounding the city of Livermore in the Tri-Valley region. Both the AVA and the city are named after Robert Livermore, a landowner whose holdings encompa ...

, Pacheco Pass AVA,

San Ysidro District AVA The San Ysidro District AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in Santa Clara County, California. It is part of the larger Santa Clara Valley AVA and is located in the foothills of the Diablo Range. San Ysidro District is significantly coo ...

, and

Santa Clara Valley AVA The Santa Clara Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in Santa Clara County, California. The area served an important role in the early history of California wine and was home to the pioneer winemakers Paul Masson and Charles Lef ...

References

External links

TTB AVA Maps

American Viticultural Areas of the San Francisco Bay Area Geography of Alameda County, California Geography of San Francisco Geography of San Mateo County, California Geography of Santa Clara County, California Geography of Santa Cruz County, California Geography of Contra Costa County, California Geography of San Benito County, California American Viticultural Areas of California American Viticultural Areas 1999 establishments in California {{wine-region-stub