Clear Lake AVA
A federally designated American Viticultural Area in California.
The Clear Lake AVA is one of 340 American Viticultural Areas — federally recognized wine-growing regions defined by the TTB in 27 CFR Part 9. The AVA was established on .
Clear Lake is nested within North Coast AVA.
It contains 4 sub-AVAs: Big Valley District-Lake County, High Valley, Kelsey Bench-Lake County, and Red Hills Lake County.
Counties
The Clear Lake AVA covers 1 county:
- Lake
Rulemaking history
- Petitioner
- Terry Dereniuk, on behalf of the Growers of Upper Lake Valley
- CFR author
- Karen A. Thornton
- CFR section
- 27 CFR §9.99
- Established
- June 7, 1984
- Current boundary effective
- July 5, 2022