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is on the northwest coast of California, in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, USA. Its population at the 2000 census was 458,614. Its largest city and county seat is Santa Rosa . Sonoma is the southwestern county of California's Wine Country region: Napa , Sonoma, Mendocino, and Lake counties. It has thirteen approved American Viticultural Areas, and over 250 wineries . In 2002 Sonoma County ranked as the second county in the United States in agricultural production. As early as 1920 Sonoma County was ran
Winemaking —both the growing of the grapes and their vinting—is an important part of the economic and cultural life of Sonoma County. In 2004, growers harvested 165,783 tonss (150,396 tonnes) of wine grapes worth US$310 million. In 2006 the Sonoma County grape harvest amounted to over 185,000 tons, exceeding Napa County's harvest by over 30 percent.[11] About 80 percent of non-pasture agricultural land in the county is for growing wine grapes—59,973 acres (242.70 km²) of vineyards, with over 1100 growers. T