---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 9.147"
title: "27"
number: "9.147"
heading: "Hames Valley."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/9.147"
---

# §9.147. Hames Valley.

- (a) **Name.** The name of the viticultural area described in this section is “Hames Valley.”
- (b) **Approved maps.** The appropriate map for determining the boundary of the Hames Valley viticultural area is one U.S.G.S. 15 minute series topographical map, titled Bradley Quadrangle, California, edition of 1961, with a scale of 1:62,500.
- (c) **Boundary.** The Hames Valley viticultural area is located in southern Monterey County in the State of California. The boundary is as follows:
  - (1) **Beginning at the southeast corner of section 26, T.** 23 S., R. 10 E., which coincides with the point where the 640 foot contour line crosses the Swain Valley drainage, the boundary proceeds in a straight line across [section 26](/cfr/27/26.md) to the northwest corner of [section 26](/cfr/27/26.md), T. 23 S., R. 10 E.;
  - (2) **Then west northwest in a straight line across sections 22, 21, 20, and 19, T.** 23 S., R. 10 E., to the northwest corner of [section 24](/cfr/27/24.md), T. 23 S., R. 9 E.;
  - (3) Then southeast in a straight line across sections [24](/cfr/27/24.md), [25](/cfr/27/25.md), [30](/cfr/27/30.md), [31](/cfr/27/31.md), and [32](/cfr/27/32.md), to the southeast corner of [section 5](/cfr/27/5.md), T. 24 S., R. 10 E.;
  - (4) **Then east southeast in a straight line across section 9 to the southeast corner of section 10, T.** 24 S., R. 10 E.;
  - (5) Then east southeast in a straight line for approximately 2.25 miles to Hill 704, located in [section 18](/cfr/27/18.md), T. 24 S., R. 11 E.;
  - (6) Then north northwest in a straight line for approximately 1.35 miles to Hill 801, located near the northwest corner of [section 7](/cfr/27/7.md), T. 24 S., R. 11 E., and then continue in a straight line to the northwest corner of [section 6](/cfr/27/6.md), T. 24 S., R. 11 E.;
  - (7) Then in a generally northwesterly direction along the Salinas River for approximately 1 mile to where the Swain Valley drainage enters the Salinas River about .11 mile south of the northern boundary line of [section 36](/cfr/27/36.md), T. 23 S., R. 10 E.;
  - (8) Then in a westerly direction for approximately .75 mile along the Swain Valley drainage to the southeast corner of [section 26](/cfr/27/26.md), T. 23 S., R. 10 E., the point of beginning.

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. ATF-356, 59 FR 14100, Mar. 25, 1994]

### 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. ATF-356, 59 FR 14100, Mar. 25, 1994]