Think
Mountain
Wine
Exploring the Santa Cruz Wine-Growing Region
By Marisa Finetti Photos by Mark Ryan
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eep in the earth’s crust, tectonic plates slide past each other, one to two inches per year. Geology and wine come together in many parts of the world, creating a profound and beautiful connection, but there’s no better place than the Santa Cruz Mountains to dig deep… and taste it. The Santa Cruz Mountains is a wine-growing region in the shadow of technology and people. Located amid a sea of three million residents in Silicon Valley, the
appellation is just a short drive south of San Francisco. How fortunate for the Bay Area to have another worldclass wine region – but just a lunch hour away. Besides the uniqueness of being flanked by the San Francisco Bay and the cool acific Ocean, the entire anta Cruz wine-growing area rests where two of earth’s tectonic plates the acific late and the orth American late drive activity along the famous San Andreas fault zone. Spanning 60 miles along the California coast, the appellation is defined by its high altitude vineyards and unique location amid the convergence of the mountains formed by the collision of these tectonic plates over 30
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