Cabernet Dorsa is a modern German red, bred by crossing Blaufraenkisch with Dornfelder to make an early-ripening, deeply colored variety for cooler German sites. In California it is a very recent, very small arrival: crush reports show it in seven vintages since 2019 across three districts, with a single grower currently listed and no acreage figure recorded yet. It is too new and too small here to have an established style; where it appears, it is likely valued for the same traits that were bred into it, color and early ripening.
What kind of grape this is
- Species
- VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
- Berry color
- NOIR
- Country of origin
- GERMANY
- Synonyms
- 2
- FPS selections
- 1
names this grape is known by elsewhere, per VIVC
distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis
Registries
What is published
Counts describe what this atlas holds for Cabernet Dorsa, 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
- 12
district-years of crush
3 of 17 crush districts, 7 crop years
- 12
district-years of Brix
tonnage-weighted at the crusher, Crush Report Table 3
- 1
producer 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
Tonnage and price by district
Reported by crush district — never by county or AVA
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Brix at the crusher
Reported by crush district — never by county or AVA
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Growers in this atlas's roster
- Castoro Wineslisted
Brand · Cabernet Dorsa
1 of this atlas’s 2772 curated producers. A roster is not a census — this is who the atlas has entered, not who grows the grape in California.