Explore the UC Davis AVA Data

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Visualizations

These visualizations were created to showcase the engaging key insights into wine-producing regions.

This plot shows the trend of AVAs created from 1980 to 2023. We see a peak in AVAs published in 1983.

This plot visualizes the number of AVAs each state contains. The color category is manually created to account for the left-skew distribution due to California having a significantly larger amount of AVAs than other states.

This plot compares the number of AVAs California has compared to all other states (“Others Summed”).

This plot shows the top 10 largest states by area, using the Albers equal area projection.

This plot visualizes the % of ava area within each state, using the Albers equal area projection.

This plot displays the number of AVAs petitioned by each petitioner who has petitioned more than one AVA.