Mendocino County - Round Valley Covelo Town. Right out of the pages of yesterday. There are a couple of cattle ranches that still have real honest to goodness cattle drives. Located about 3 hours out of San Francisco mostly via the US 101 Redwood Highway and the last bit on State Highway - there are some real opportunities in land purchase.
Recently some pretty smart, viticultural folk have been looking a the valley as a place to acquire land that for the most part has historically been grassland but now looks like it could be economically priced vineyard site.
U.S. Department of Agriculture weather station records and soils map suggest very similar conditions as are recorded in the intensely vineyard planted area south of Clearlake in Lake County. Water is seemingly abundant and people knowledgeable in the subject of viticulture say they believe this area has many sites that at least in their opinion would be host to successful vineyard plantings. The altitude is 1,400 feet in the valley and somewhat higher into the foothills.
The proponents of the area folk endorsing the concept of vineyard include at least one member of a Mendocino County icon winery family made a substantial acquisition of land which has generated a good deal of speculation about the intended use of the farmable acres of the ranch.
While limited, Covelo, the headquarters town in the valley provides most necessary services; groceries, restaurants, fire protection, schools, a bank, etc. The county airport is paved and has night landing lights.
Round Valley is a unique and beautiful place. Come see.
Offered at $2,580,000 |
