---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 9.142"
title: "27"
number: "9.142"
heading: "Bennett Valley."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/9.142"
---

# §9.142. Bennett Valley.

- (a) **Name.** The name of the viticultural area described in this section is “Bennett Valley”.
- (b) **Approved maps.** The appropriate maps for determining the boundary of the Bennett Valley viticultural area are four 1:24,000 scale USGS topographic maps. They are titled:
  - (1) **Santa Rosa Quadrangle, CA—** Sonoma Co. 1994
  - (2) Kenwood Quadrangle, CA 1954, photorevised 1980
  - (3) **Glen Ellen Quadrangle, CA—** Sonoma Co. 1954, photorevised 1980
  - (4) **Cotati Quadrangle, CA—** Sonoma Co. 1954, photorevised 1980
- (c) **Boundary.** The Bennett Valley viticultural area is entirely within Sonoma County, California, and is located northwest of the peak of Sonoma Mountain and southeast of the city of Santa Rosa.
  - (1) Beginning at the peak of Taylor Mountain (BM 1401), [Section 6](/cfr/27/6.md), T6N, R7W, proceed straight northeast to the intersection of the common line between Sections [31](/cfr/27/31.md) and [32](/cfr/27/32.md) and the 560-foot elevation line, T7N, R7W; continue straight northeast at the same angle, crossing the Bennett Valley Golf Course and Matanzas Creek, to a point on the 500-foot elevation line approximately 400 feet north of the southern boundary of [Section 20](/cfr/27/20.md), T7N, R7W (Santa Rosa Quadrangle); then
  - (2) Proceed straight southeast to the center peak of the three unnamed peaks above the 1,100-foot elevation line, located approximately 1,600 feet southwest of Hunter Spring, in [Section 28](/cfr/27/28.md), T7N, R7W (Santa Rosa Quadrangle); then
  - (3) Proceed straight east-southeast to a 1,527-foot peak in the southeast corner of [Section 28](/cfr/27/28.md), T7N, R7W (Santa Rosa Quadrangle); then
  - (4) Proceed straight southeast to Bennett Mountain's 1,887-foot peak, [Section 34](/cfr/27/34.md), T7N, R7W (Kenwood Quadrangle); then
  - (5) Proceed straight southeast to the 1,309-foot peak located northwest of a water tank and approximately 400 feet north of the southern boundary of [Section 35](/cfr/27/35.md), T7N, R7W (Kenwood Quadrangle); then
  - (6) Proceed straight south-southeast to the 978-foot peak in the northeast quadrant of [Section 11](/cfr/27/11.md), T6N, R7W, and continue straight south-southeast approximately 600 feet to the “T” intersection of two unimproved roads located on the common boundary line between Sections [11](/cfr/27/11.md) and [12](/cfr/27/12.md), T6N, R7W (Kenwood Quadrangle); then
  - (7) Proceed south along the north-south unimproved road to its intersection with Sonoma Mountain Road, [Section 13](/cfr/27/13.md), T6N, R7W, and continue straight south to the 1,600-foot elevation line, [Section 13](/cfr/27/13.md), T6N, R7W (Glen Ellen Quadrangle); then
  - (8) Proceed west along the meandering 1,600-foot elevation line to the point where it crosses the common line between Sections [22](/cfr/27/22.md) and [23](/cfr/27/23.md), T6N, R7W (Glen Ellen Quadrangle); then
  - (9) Proceed straight west-northwest to the point where the 900-foot elevation line crosses the common line between Sections [15](/cfr/27/15.md) and [16](/cfr/27/16.md), T6N, R7W, approximately 500 feet north of the southwest corner of [Section 15](/cfr/27/15.md) (Cotati Quadrangle); then
  - (10) Proceed straight northwest to the intersection of Grange Road (known as Crane Canyon Road to the west) and the southern boundary of [Section 9](/cfr/27/9.md), and continue straight west along that section boundary to the southwest corner of [Section 9](/cfr/27/9.md), T6N, R7W (Cotati Quadrangle); then
  - (11) Proceed straight north-northwest to the 961-foot peak on the east side of [Section 8](/cfr/27/8.md), T6N, R7W (Santa Rosa Quadrangle); and then
  - (12) **Proceed straight northwest to the peak of Taylor Mountain, returning to the point of beginning.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. TTB-6, 68 FR 61748, Oct. 30, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: 27 U.S.C. 205.

### Source

Source: T.D. ATF-60, 44 FR 56692, Oct. 2, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[T.D. TTB-6, 68 FR 61748, Oct. 30, 2003]