The ATF Defines the Paso Robles AVA

TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS

CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS, DEPARTMENT OF THE
                                TREASURY

PART 9--AMERICAN VITICULTURAL AREAS--Table of Contents

             Subpart C--Approved American Viticultural Areas

Sec. 9.84  Paso Robles.

    (a) Name. The name of the viticultural area described in this
section is ``Paso Robles''.
    (b) Approved map. The map showing the boundaries of the Paso Robles
viticultural area is: ``San Luis Obispo'', NI 10-3, scale 1:250,000
(1956, revised 1969).
    (c) Boundaries. The Paso Robles viticultural area is located within
San Luis Obispo County, California. From the point of beginning where
the county lines of San Luis Obispo, Kings and Kern Counties converge,
the county line also being the township line between T.24S. and T.25S.,
in R.16E.:
    (1) Then in a westerly direction along this county line for 42 miles
to the range line between R.9E. and R.10E.;
    (2) Then in a southerly direction for 12 miles along the range line
to the southwest of corner of T.26S. and R.10E.;
    (3) Then in a southeasterly direction, approximately 5.5 miles to a
point of intersection of the Dover Canyon Jeep Trail and Dover Canyon
Road;
    (4) Then in an easterly direction along Dover Canyon Road,
approximately 1.5 miles, to the western border line of Rancho Paso de
Robles;
    (5) Then, following the border of the Paso Robles land grant,
beginning in an easterly direction, to a point where it intersects the
range line between R.11E. and R.12E.;
    (6) Then southeasterly for approximately 16.5 miles to the point of
intersection of the township line between T.29S. and T.30S. and the
range line between R.12E. and R.13E.;
    (7) Then in an easterly direction for approximately 6 miles to the
range line between R.13E. and R.14E.;
    (8) Then in a northerly direction for approximately 6 miles to the
township line between T.28S. and T.29S.;
    (9) Then in an easterly direction for approximately 18 miles to the
range line between R.16E. and R.17E.;
    (10) Then in a northerly direction for approximately 24 miles to the
point of beginning.

[T.D. ATF-148, 48 FR 45241, Oct. 4, 1983, as amended by T.D. ATF-377, 61
FR 29953, June 13, 1996]