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CORDON CREEKWINE ATLASEdition 01
Close natural-light view of ripe Zinfandel clusters hanging among textured green leaves in a hillside vineyard
Close natural-light view of ripe Zinfandel clusters hanging among textured green leaves in a hillside vineyard

Grapes / field entry

Zinfandel in the Sierra Foothills

A grape sheet that links documented California history with the atlas approach to source-labelled regional context.

Reading this entry

This page is built as a cross-reference rather than a tasting note. It gives readers a clear route from the term to the relevant atlas framework, a place page, a grape sheet, and the methodology ledger.

Where the source set supports a precise statement, the page names that source family. Where a historical or annual record has not yet been normalized, the limitation remains visible. That is more useful than converting a reasonable impression into a claimed fact.

Why this belongs in the atlas

Regional names, grape names, and annual reports answer different questions. Read the regional reference alongside the Zinfandel field guide and the Cordon Creek archive to keep those layers connected without collapsing them into one claim.

For source details and known limits, consult the references in the rail. The first release is intentionally useful at a modest scale: it establishes a dependable route through the public record and leaves room for verified additions.

The Cordon Creek Wine Atlas extends beyond the Sierra Foothills into European festival records, and its entry on the Olpe Schützenfest treats the event as a field-guide subject rather than a travel advertisement. The page covers the rites observed during the festival week, the association records that document past editions, and the practical question of how visitors arrange a stay around the dates. For readers who track how regional celebrations are recorded and preserved, the entry sits alongside the atlas's other documentary work, including the Cordon Creek Cellars Archive, and keeps its sourcing visible throughout.An Open Space Assessment under PPG17 was a structured audit of what a local authority actually provided, not a statement of intent. Surveyors walked and mapped each site, recorded its quality and its value to the community, and set the results against the standards the plan required. Catchments mattered: a play area serves a different radius than a country park, and the assessment mapped those distances to show who could reach what. The atlas entry on Open Space Assessment records how that method worked in English planning, including the Hertfordshire case, and where the evidence stopped short of the policy it was meant to support.The Santa Fe Suites, formerly the Camel Rock, is an independent hotel, and the guide at Santa Fe lodging notes treats it as one property among many rather than a chain listing. The same field-guide habit applies here as with Sierra Foothills records: name the source, keep the uncertainty visible, and let the reader judge. A hotel guide to a city is a small atlas of its own, with neighborhoods and seasons standing in for appellations and vintages. What the guide does not settle, the traveler still has to check directly.