---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 9.88"
title: "27"
number: "9.88"
heading: "Pacheco Pass."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/9.88"
---

# §9.88. Pacheco Pass.

- (a) **Name.** The name of the viticultural area described in this section is “Pacheco Pass.”
- (b) **Approved maps.** The appropriate maps for determining the boundaries of Pacheco Pass viticultural area are two U.S.G.S. maps. They are titled:
  - (1) San Felipe Quadrangle, 7.5 minute series, 1955 (photorevised 1971).
  - (2) Three Sisters Quadrangle, 7.5 minute series, 1954 (photorevised 1971).
- (c) **Boundary—**
  - (1) **General.** The Pacheco Pass viticultural area is located in California. The starting point of the following boundary description is the crossing of Pacheco Creek under California Highway 156, about 4 miles north of Hollister Municipal Airport, in San Benito County, California.
  - (2) **Boundary Description.**
    - (i) From the starting point northwestward along Pacheco Creek to the intersection with the straight-line extension of Barnheisel Road. (Note. This is an old land grant boundary and appears on the U.S.G.S. map as the western boundary of an orchard.)
    - (ii) From there in a straight line northeastward to the intersection of Barnheisel Road and California Highway 156.
    - (iii) **From there northward along Highway 156 to California Highway 152 (“Pacheco Pass Highway”).**
    - (iv) **Then northward along Pacheco Pass Highway to the 37° latitude line.**
    - (v) **Then eastward along that latitude line to the land line R.** 5E./R. 6E.
    - (vi) Then southward along that land line, crossing Foothill Road, and continuing southward to a point exactly 2,300 feet south of Foothill Road.
    - (vii) **From there is a straight line to the starting point.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. ATF-167, 49 FR 9169, Mar. 12, 1984]

### 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-167, 49 FR 9169, Mar. 12, 1984]