Sierra Foothills is a vast American Viticultural Area (AVA) encompassing portions of seven of the twelve California counties in the foothill "belt" of the Sierra Nevadas in north-central California, an interior range that extends about 360 mi (580 km) in a northwest–southeast orientation from Mt. Lassen to Walker Pass near Bakersfield. The viticultural area is approximately 160 mi (260 km) long and lies 40 mi (64 km) to the east of Sacramento.
From the Wikipedia article Sierra Foothills AVA, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sierra Foothills is an appellation in California, United States. We track 1 of its wines in stock at 1 shop, from 0 wine houses, from € 46.69; mostly red.
- Country
- United States
- Region
- California
- In our wines
- Primitivo
- Styles
- Red 1
- Prices
- from € 46.69 · median € 46.69 / 75 cl
Vintages
per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | hotwetso far +1.0 °C · 1,798 GDD · 134 % rain |
| 2025 | – | – | – | – | warmwet harvest +0.7 °C · 1,926 GDD · 72 % rain |
| 2024 | – | – | – | – | hotdry +2.0 °C · 2,213 GDD · 52 % rain |
| 2023 | – | – | – | – | averagedrywet harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,784 GDD · 59 % rain |
| 2022 | – | – | – | – | hotwet harvest +1.5 °C · 2,100 GDD · 80 % rain |
| 2021 | 1 | € 46.69 | € 46.69 | – | hotwet +1.6 °C · 2,118 GDD · 136 % rain |
| 2020 | – | – | – | – | hotdry harvest +1.9 °C · 2,192 GDD · 71 % rain |
| 2019 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest −0.2 °C · 1,732 GDD · 106 % rain |
| 2018 | – | – | – | – | warmdrydry harvest +0.6 °C · 1,919 GDD · 70 % rain |
| 2017 | – | – | – | – | warmwet harvest +0.8 °C · 1,953 GDD · 105 % rain |
| 2016 | – | – | – | – | averagewetdry harvest +0.2 °C · 1,819 GDD · 163 % rain |
| 2015 | – | – | – | – | warmdry harvest +0.8 °C · 1,940 GDD · 83 % rain |
| 2014 | – | – | – | – | hotdrywet harvest +1.0 °C · 1,996 GDD · 66 % rain |
| 2013 | – | – | – | – | averagedrywet harvest +0.3 °C · 1,853 GDD · 55 % rain |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest +0.4 °C · 1,869 GDD · 91 % rain |
| 2011 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.3 °C · 1,527 GDD · 123 % rain |
| 2010 | – | – | – | – | coldwetdry harvest −1.6 °C · 1,517 GDD · 186 % rain |
| 2009 | – | – | – | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,792 GDD · 114 % rain |
| 2008 | – | – | – | – | warmdrydry harvest +0.7 °C · 1,936 GDD · 31 % rain |
| 2007 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest −0.2 °C · 1,730 GDD · 77 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | average +0.1 °C · 1,823 GDD · 123 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.7 °C · 1,667 GDD · 118 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | average +0.1 °C · 1,803 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | warmwetdry harvest +0.5 °C · 1,980 GDD · 136 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest +0.2 °C · 1,819 GDD · 41 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | hotdry +1.0 °C · 2,045 GDD · 69 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | averagewetwet harvest −0.3 °C · 1,704 GDD · 138 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.7 °C · 1,686 GDD · 74 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | coldwetwet harvest −2.0 °C · 1,418 GDD · 163 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | averagedry +0.2 °C · 1,832 GDD · 64 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | averagewet +0.1 °C · 1,798 GDD · 140 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | coldwetdry harvest −1.2 °C · 1,558 GDD · 141 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,770 GDD · 81 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | colddry harvest −1.0 °C · 1,582 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | warmdry harvest +0.9 °C · 1,967 GDD · 80 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.7 °C · 1,674 GDD · 110 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,770 GDD · 94 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | coolwetwet harvest −0.9 °C · 1,586 GDD · 132 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | warmdry harvest +0.8 °C · 1,963 GDD · 71 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | warmdrydry harvest +0.9 °C · 1,968 GDD · 39 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | coldwet harvest −1.3 °C · 1,530 GDD · 73 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | averagedrywet harvest −0.2 °C · 1,727 GDD · 58 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,760 GDD · 91 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | coldwetwet harvest −1.8 °C · 1,490 GDD · 151 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | coldwetwet harvest −1.9 °C · 1,443 GDD · 210 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Sierra Foothills's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the appellation. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.