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California Wine Atlas

Beclan

Red wine grape · reported 2008–2013

Further reading: VIVC catalog entry

Beclan is a rare red grape from Savoie in the French Alps, a minor regional variety with little presence outside its home region even in France. California's CDFA crush data run only from 2008 through 2013, across two crush districts, with volumes always tiny, never exceeding about 4 tons crushed in a year. No Foundation Plant Services registry entry exists for it, meaning no certified California planting stock is currently listed, and no bearing acreage was ever separately reported. It disappears from state reports after 2013, consistent with a short-lived experimental planting.

What kind of grape this is

Registry name
BECLAN PETIT

CDFA prints it as Beclan

Species
VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
Berry color
NOIR
Country of origin
FRANCE
Synonyms
25

names this grape is known by elsewhere, per VIVC

Registries

What is published

Counts describe what this atlas holds for Beclan, not what California grows. A zero is a published answer: it means the source names the grape and reports nothing under it, or does not name it at all.

0

county-years of acreage

the Grape Acreage Report has never named it in a county table

4

district-years of crush

2 of 17 crush districts, 4 crop years

4

district-years of Brix

tonnage-weighted at the crusher, Crush Report Table 3

0

producers in this atlas

producers whose curated wine list names it — a curated roster of 2,772 producers, not a census of California

regions with a maturity date

not one of the eight cultivars with a

Every crush observation

Reported by crush district — never by county or AVA

crop yeardistricttons$/tonshare of district
2008100.4<0.01%
20091040.02%
2010101.3$1,000<0.01%
201213.1$2,700<0.01%