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California Wine Atlas

Grand Noir

Red wine grape · reported 2000–2014

Further reading: VIVC catalog entry

Grand Noir is a French teinturier grape, a Graciano-Petit Bouschet cross bred for dark-fleshed juice that could add color to lighter blending wines. California's CDFA crush data run from 2000 through 2014, across five districts, with one grower and one tech sheet on file but volumes always small, peaking at about 14 tons crushed in a year and prices topping out near $2,700 a ton. No bearing acreage was ever separately reported, and the variety drops out of state reports after 2014, consistent with its narrow historical role as a blending component rather than a standalone wine.

What kind of grape this is

Species
VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
Berry color
NOIR
Country of origin
FRANCE
Parentage
GRACIANO×BOUSCHET PETIT

confirmed by DNA markers

Synonyms
33

names this grape is known by elsewhere, per VIVC

Approved on a US label
Grand noir

the names TTB permits on a bottle

FPS selections
2

distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis

Registries

What is published

Counts describe what this atlas holds for Grand Noir, 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

19

district-years of crush

5 of 17 crush districts, 13 crop years

19

district-years of Brix

tonnage-weighted at the crusher, Crush Report Table 3

2

producers in this atlas

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

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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

2 of this atlas’s 2772 curated producers, 2 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.

Measured chemistry, from one producer's own sheets

1 wine from 1 producer, each read from that producer’s own tech sheet and linked to it. No average is shown, and none should be computed from these. Wineries that publish tech sheets are selected by their own marketing departments, so a mean across them describes publishing habits rather than a grape.