America's Top Wine Regions

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Mendocino County, Calif.
California's northernmost wine region also has the westernmost winery in the continental United States: Pacific Star Winery on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Running 30 miles inland, Mendocino County calls itself "America's Greenest Wine Region." It encompasses almost 75 wineries, 18 percent of which are certified organic and six percent certified or pending certification as biodynamic. Twenty of the wineries are also certified fish-friendly. (The county is a watershed for the Russian and Navarro rivers.) Parducci, the oldest winery in the region, is 100 percent solar-powered and the nation's first carbon-neutral winery. Chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon dominate the field of varietals in Mendocino wine country, with zinfandel, pinot noir and merlot coming in at the third through fifth spots, respectively.

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