Aleatico

Aleatico is an aromatic Italian red, a Muscat relative, its second parent is Muscat a Petits Grains Blancs, traditionally used on Elba and in Tuscany for sweet, perfumed red wines. California's own numbers show a grape that gets crushed but is not tracked as planted acreage: it appears in crush reports across 88 district-years and all 26 vintages since 2000, yet the acreage report carries no bearing-acreage figure for it at all. That gap suggests small, scattered plantings folded into other reporting categories rather than a distinct commercial footprint. Where it is bottled here, it follows the Italian model: a light, Muscat-scented red, often off-dry.