Beautiful Ramona Valley, an easy 45-minute drive from downtown San Diego, is an up-and-coming wine region that produces some of San Diego County’s best wines. In 2006, Ramona became an approved American Viticultural Area (AVA) that covers 89,000 acres. While people have been growing grapes here for some time—Dr. M.C. Woodson planted vines on his homestead below his namesake mountain in the 1870s—the current bumper crop of tasting rooms is relatively new, thanks to a 2013 San Diego Boutique Winery Ordinance that allowed many wineries to pour for guests at their properties and tasting rooms.
