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California Wine Atlas

Gamay (Napa)

Red wine grape · reported 2001–2020

Gamay (Napa), or Napa Gamay, is Valdiguie — a Languedoc grape, not true Gamay, and the confusion is the whole story of the name. CDFA reported it under this name for twenty crop years, 2001 through 2020, reaching 43,186 tons across sixteen districts and 234 bearing acres in its final year. From 2021 the reports print Valdiguie instead, so the series continues under the correct name rather than ending. It gives light, high-acid reds, often made in a fresh carbonic style.

What is published

Counts describe what this atlas holds for Gamay (Napa), 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.

211

county-years of acreage

15 counties

232

district-years of crush

16 of 17 crush districts, 20 crop years

232

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

Acreage in California

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Counties and concentration

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Where it is planted

Reported by county — never by AVA

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Share of each county's vineyard

Reported by county — never by AVA

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The counties

Reported by county — never by AVA

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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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