Location: Portions of Contra Costa, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, San Benito, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties
Climate: The Central Coast has warm days often topping 90 degrees in the hotter locations during the growing season but retaining the typical California, marine influence in the evenings with average temperatures in the mid 50s to low 60s.
Comments: Two AVAs, Santa Cruz Mountain AVAs (which also contains the Ben Lomond Mountain AVA) are often thought of being part of the Central Coast AVA but are technically distinct from it.
The Central Coast also has one very large sub AVA, the San Francisco Bay Area AVA which itself contains numerous smaller AVAs. We've shown it below but in the winery listings, we've chosen to ignore this AVA because many of the smaller ones contained in it are much better known.
