Tracy Hills AVA

Tracy Hills is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) is located primarily in southern San Joaquin and straddling northwestern Stanislaus Counties, California approximately 55 miles (89 km) east-southeast from San Francisco on the western edge of the Central Valley south and southwest of the city of Tracy, California. The wine appellation was established on November 8, 2006, as the nation's 209th, the state's 107th and San Joaquin County's seventh AVA by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), Treasury after reviewing the petition submitted by Sara Schorske of Compliance Service of America, Inc., on behalf of the Brown family, owners of a vineyard near Tracy, proposing the viticultural area named "Tracy Hills." The name "Tracy," is used to identify the neighboring city of Tracy, California, and its surrounding agricultural land, together with the geographical modifier "Hills," to accurately describe the viticultural area.

The 32,900-acre (51.4 sq mi) region was designated based on the petition by the Brown family, owners of Tulip Hill Winery in Lake County and their Mount Oso vineyard in the Tracy Hills appellation. The five original vineyards in the appellation are planted between 100 and 500 feet (30–152 m) above sea level among the low, rolling Altamont Hills surrounding Tracy.