{"type":"standard","title":"Paso Robles Highlands District AVA","displaytitle":"Paso Robles Highlands District AVA","namespace":{"id":0,"text":""},"wikibase_item":"Q131995697","titles":{"canonical":"Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA","normalized":"Paso Robles Highlands District AVA","display":"Paso Robles Highlands District AVA"},"pageid":78915563,"thumbnail":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/TTB_Map_Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA.png/330px-TTB_Map_Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA.png","width":320,"height":228},"originalimage":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/TTB_Map_Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA.png","width":792,"height":565},"lang":"en","dir":"ltr","revision":"1276949490","tid":"5db0ecd7-f084-11ef-8382-07ae2ccf5a82","timestamp":"2025-02-21T18:47:57Z","description":"Appelation that designates wine in San Luis Obispo County, CA","description_source":"local","coordinates":{"lat":35.50469814,"lon":-120.24491243},"content_urls":{"desktop":{"page":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA","revisions":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA?action=history","edit":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA?action=edit","talk":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA"},"mobile":{"page":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA","revisions":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA","edit":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA?action=edit","talk":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Paso_Robles_Highlands_District_AVA"}},"extract":"Paso Robles Highlands District is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located in San Luis Obispo County, California and lies within the multi-county Central Coast AVA. It was established on October 8, 2014, by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), Treasury after reviewing the petitions submitted in 2007 by the Paso Robles American Viticultural Area Committee (PRAVAC) to establish 11 new viticultural areas located entirely within the existing Paso Robles viticultural area adjacent to the northern boundary of San Luis Obispo County. The proposed viticultural areas were: Adelaida District, Creston District, El Pomar District, Paso Robles Estrella District, Paso Robles Geneseo District, Paso Robles Highlands District, Paso Robles Willow Creek District, San Juan Creek, San Miguel District, Santa Margarita Ranch, and Templeton Gap District. The AVA Committee's petition originally proposed the viticultural area named \"Paso Robles Canyon Ranch.\" However, the Canyon Ranch Spa began to market wine under that name after the petitions were filed with the TTB. Although, the PRAVAC had \"first in time, first in right,\" strong evidence in the form of other trademark registrations and COLAs supported the argument that the Canyon Ranch Spa marks are geographically descriptive and hence not registrable. Nevertheless, the PRAVAC and the wine growers did not want to delay the processing of the eleven AVA petitions as result of the CR License's claim of impact to its Canyon Ranch brand. Therefore, they resolved the potential dispute over the \"Canyon Ranch\" name, and did the historical research and identified the \"Highlands\" or \"Highlands District\" as long been used to describe the vast, but relatively unpopulated, area marked with canyons and highlands since the late 1800s.","extract_html":"
Paso Robles Highlands District is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located in San Luis Obispo County, California and lies within the multi-county Central Coast AVA. It was established on October 8, 2014, by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), Treasury after reviewing the petitions submitted in 2007 by the Paso Robles American Viticultural Area Committee (PRAVAC) to establish 11 new viticultural areas located entirely within the existing Paso Robles viticultural area adjacent to the northern boundary of San Luis Obispo County. The proposed viticultural areas were: Adelaida District, Creston District, El Pomar District, Paso Robles Estrella District, Paso Robles Geneseo District, Paso Robles Highlands District, Paso Robles Willow Creek District, San Juan Creek, San Miguel District, Santa Margarita Ranch, and Templeton Gap District. The AVA Committee's petition originally proposed the viticultural area named \"Paso Robles Canyon Ranch.\"
However, the Canyon Ranch Spa began to market wine under that name after the petitions were filed with the TTB. Although, the PRAVAC had \"first in time, first in right,\" strong evidence in the form of other trademark registrations and COLAs supported the argument that the Canyon Ranch Spa marks are geographically descriptive and hence not registrable. Nevertheless, the PRAVAC and the wine growers did not want to delay the processing of the eleven AVA petitions as result of the CR License's claim of impact to its Canyon Ranch brand. Therefore, they resolved the potential dispute over the \"Canyon Ranch\" name, and did the historical research and identified the \"Highlands\" or \"Highlands District\" as long been used to describe the vast, but relatively unpopulated, area marked with canyons and highlands since the late 1800s.