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California Wine Atlas

Gruner Veltliner

White wine grape · reported 2009–2025

Further reading: UC Davis Foundation Plant Services

Gruner Veltliner is Austria's most planted grape, a peppery, high-acid white. California's record for it begins in 2009 and shows modest, steady growth since: bearing acreage rose from 152 acres five years before the present to 156 acres in the latest report, with 171 total acres logged for 2025 across 9 counties and two growers on file. It remains a small but deliberate planting by growers experimenting with cooler-climate white varieties outside the usual California lineup of grapes.

What kind of grape this is

Approved on a US label
Grüner Veltliner

the names TTB permits on a bottle

FPS selections
3

distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis

What is published

Counts describe what this atlas holds for Gruner Veltliner, 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.

121

county-years of acreage

9 counties, 156 bearing acres in 2025

113

district-years of crush

11 of 17 crush districts, 17 crop years

113

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

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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Growers in this atlas's roster

2 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.