Flame Tokay is fundamentally a table grape — its origins trace to North Africa, listed in international records as a synonym of Ahmeur Bou Ahmeur — and it has long been associated with California's Lodi district, historically one of the state's major table-grape-growing areas. Despite that primary role, CDFA's crush records show it has also been processed at real scale: peak-year volumes reached over 26,000 tons crushed statewide, spanning 2000 through 2018 before a gap and a small reappearance in 2024–2025 at just a few tons. That makes it one of California's most-crushed grapes despite never being grown primarily for wine.
What kind of grape this is
- Registry name
- AHMEUR BOU AHMEUR
- Species
- VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
- Berry color
- ROUGE
- Country of origin
- ALGERIA
- Synonyms
- 78
- Approved on a US label
- Flame Tokay
- FPS selections
- 3
CDFA prints it as Flame Tokay
names this grape is known by elsewhere, per VIVC
the names TTB permits on a bottle
distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis
Registries
What is published
Counts describe what this atlas holds for Flame Tokay, 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
- 23
district-years of crush
3 of 17 crush districts, 20 crop years
- 23
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
- Bedrock Wine Co.bottled
Winery · Carlisle Vineyard
1 of this atlas’s 2772 curated producers, 1 of them with a named wine in the atlas made from it. A roster is not a census — this is who the atlas has entered, not who grows the grape in California.