While Merlot is grown throughout the state, it is particularly prominent in Napa, Monterey and Sonoma County.

Jesse, a member of the secret Talamasca and relative of Maharet, is mortally injured while attending the concert, and is taken to Maharet's Sonoma compound where she is made into a vampire.

By 1819, Spain decided to limit its " reach " in the New World to Northern California due to the costs involved in sustaining these remote outposts ; the northernmost settlement therefore is Mission San Francisco Solano, founded in Sonoma in 1823.

The mission is located in present-day Sonoma, California, at 114 East Spain Street.

Today, the Mission is part of the Sonoma State Historic Park.

San Luis Obispo County is the third largest producer of wine in California, surpassed only by Sonoma and Napa Counties.

This is in part due to the presence of the Sonoma Mountains between Petaluma and Sonoma.

Snow is exceedingly rare in Sonoma County except in the higher elevations on and around the Mayacamas Mountains, particularly Mount Saint Helena, and Cobb Mountain in nearby Lake County.

Sonoma County is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and has of coastline.

Much of central and northern Sonoma County is in the watershed of the Russian River and its tributaries.

" The Laguna de Santa Rosa is Sonoma County's richest area of wildlife habitat, and the most biologically diverse region of Sonoma County ( itself the second-most biologically diverse county in California )...

It is a unique ecological system covering more than and a mosaic of creeks, open water, perennial marshes, seasonal wetlands, riparian forests, oak woodlands and grasslands ... As the receiving water of a watershed where most of the county's human population lives, it is a landscape feature of critical importance to Sonoma County's water quality, flood control, and biodiversity.

At the present there is only a private marina with related facilities called Port Sonoma near the mouth of the Petaluma River.

The intertidal zone where they join the bay is the vast Napa Sonoma Marsh.

The Sonoma Valley is drained by Sonoma Creek, whose major tributaries are Yulupa Creek, Graham Creek, Calabazas Creek, Schell Creek and Carriger Creek ; Arroyo Seco Creek is tributary to Schell Creek. Other creeks include Foss, Felta, and Mill creeks.

Sebastopol () is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, approximately north of San Francisco.

Some cities or counties also have an annual State of the City Address given by the mayor, county commissioner or board chair, including Sonoma County, California ; Orlando, Florida ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Parma, Ohio ; Detroit, Michigan ; Seattle, Washington ; Birmingham, Alabama ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Los Angeles, California ; Buffalo, New York ; Rochester, New York ; San Antonio, Texas ; McAllen, Texas ; and San Diego, California.

The population was 7, 379 at the 2010 census, but its businesses also serve surrounding rural portions of Sonoma County, totaling about 50, 000 people.

Located in the Sonoma Coast AVA, Cotati can also be considered part of the Wine Country.

The Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District serves the city, which is also home to Sonoma State University.

At one time, Three House also published the free weekly newspaper " El Sol de Sonoma ," in Spanish, and a bimonthly magazine called " FineLife.

* Ignazio Vella ( 1928 – 2011 ) ran the Vella Cheese Company for many years and also served three terms on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors.

* Sawawaktödö ( Sawa-Waktado-‘ Sagebrush-Eaters ’, also called Sawakudökwa tuviwarai-‘ Sagebrush-Eaters, who live in the mountains ’, lived in the Winnemucca area, from the Osgood Mountains and the Sonoma Mountains in the east to the Jackson Mountains in the west, from the Slumbering Hills and Santa Rosa Range in the north to Table Mountain Wilderness in the south, federally recognized as Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation and Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada )

* Makuhadökadö ( also called Pauida tuviwarai, lived around Battle Mountain and Unionville in Nevada, parts of the Humboldt Valleys, in the desert valleys of Buena Vista Valley, Pleasant Valley, Buffalo Valley as in the Sonoma and East Mountains, today federally recognized as Reno-Sparks Indian Colony )

The California Republic, also called the Bear Flag Republic, is the name used for a period of revolt against Mexico initially proclaimed by a handful of American settlers in the Mexican territory of Alta California on June 14, 1846, in Sonoma.

El Camino Real ( Spanish for The Royal Road, also known as The King's Highway ) and sometimes associated with Calle Real usually refers to the historic 600-mile ( 966-kilometer ) California Mission Trail, connecting the former Alta California's 21 missions ( along with a number of support sites ), 4 presidios, and several pueblos, stretching from Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego in the south to Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma in the north.

San Pablo Bay also receives the waters of Sonoma Creek through the Napa Sonoma Marsh, San Rafael Creek, and the Petaluma River directly, and the Napa River which flows into the Carquinez Strait via the Mare Island Strait near its entrance into the bay.

Stanislaus is also one of the two campuses ( other one being Sonoma State University ) in the 23-campus CSU system listed among the best undergraduate colleges by The Princeton Review.

He also did work for a Sonoma cheese factory.

At his direction, Lt. Joseph W. Revere also lowered California's famous Bear Flag flying at Sonoma, California, north of San Francisco Bay and raised the U. S. Flag.

It mainly serves Marin and Sonoma counties, and also provides limited service to San Francisco and Contra Costa County.

The Bear Flag Revolt took place in the town of Sonoma, which is also the location of the last of the California Missions.

This tradition also exists at other institutions including Davidson College, Pepperdine University, The Citadel, the United States Naval Academy, Georgia Tech ( Midnight Madness ), Michigan State University ( The Midnight Screamings ), and Sonoma State University ( The Sonoma Scream ).

Located in the Sonoma Coast AVA, Cazadero can also be considered part of the Wine Country.

SR 12 is also known as Sonoma Highway between Santa Rosa and the west side of the city of Sonoma ;

He also debuted a Winston Cup car for Tim Beverly at Sonoma, finishing fourteenth in the # 17 NAPA Chevy.

Silvaner is also known under the following synonyms: Arvine, Arvine Grande, Augustiner Weiss, Beregi Szilvani, Boetzinger, Clozier, Cynifadl Zeleny, Cynifal, Fliegentraube, Frankenriesling, Frankentraube, Fueszeres Szilvani, Gamay Blanc, Gentil Vert, Gros Rhin, Gros-rhin, Gruen Silvaner, Gruenedel, Gruenfraenkisch, Grün Silvaner, Haeusler Schwarz, Johannisberger, Mishka, Momavaka, Monterey Riesling, Moravka, Movavka, Muschka, Mushza, Musza, Nemetskii Rizling, Oesterreicher, Oestreicher, Pepltraube, Picardon Blanc, Picardou Blanc, Plant Du Rhin, Rhin, Rundblatt, Salfin, Salfine Bely, Salvaner, Salviner, Scharvaner, Scherwaner, Schoenfeilner, Schwaebler, Schwuebler, Sedmogradka, Sedmogradska Zelena, Selenzhiz, Selivan, Silvanske Zelene, Sonoma Riesling, Sylvan Zeleny, Sylvaner, Sylvaner Verde, Szilvani Feher, Tschafahnler, Yesil Silvaner, Zelencic, Zeleny, Zierfandler, Zierifandel, Zinifal, Zoeld Szilvani, Zoeldsilvani, Syilvaner, Siylvaner, Sylvaner vert, Grüner Sylvaner, Grünfraenkisch, Franken Riesling and Grüner Silvaner.

Along with Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco and the now-defunct New Albion Brewing Company in Sonoma, whose owners offered Grossman and Camusi early guidance in their venture, Sierra Nevada is considered one of the earliest and most influential breweries which spawned the craft beer movement of the 1980s-90s.

Dallenbach was considered as one of the better road course drivers and was often recruited to drive at such tracks as Sonoma and Watkins Glen as many drivers struggled on these more demanding tracks.

Sonoma is known as the birthplace of American California, for it was in this town plaza that the Bear Flag Revolt took place and a Bear Flag was first raised on June 14, 1846.

In particular, the town of Sonoma, is known as the birthplace of American California.

As home to both Buena Vista winery, California's oldest commercial winery, and Gundlach Bundschu winery, California's oldest family-run winery, the Sonoma Valley is known as the birthplace of the California wine industry.

Sonoma Valley is the birthplace of the California wine industry and often called The Valley of the Moon.