Kleinberger
White wine grape · reported 2000–2009
Kleinberger is an old, largely forgotten white grape from the Alsace-Germany borderlands, once planted for light, everyday table wines. California's CDFA crush data are sparse and discontinuous, covering 2000 through 2009 with several missing years, spread across just two districts and never exceeding about 5.4 tons crushed in a single year. No bearing acreage was ever separately recorded, and the atlas could not match the name to a current VIVC or Foundation Plant Services registry entry. It appears to have essentially disappeared from California's commercial vineyards after this brief, minor reporting history.
What is published
Counts describe what this atlas holds for Kleinberger, 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
- 5
district-years of crush
2 of 17 crush districts, 5 crop years
- 5
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
Every crush observation
Reported by crush district — never by county or AVA
| crop year | district | tons | $/ton | share of district |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 5.4 | $1,000 | <0.01% |
| 2001 | 3 | 4.9 | — | <0.01% |
| 2002 | 3 | 3.2 | — | <0.01% |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 | — | <0.01% |
| 2008 | 8 | 5.4 | — | <0.01% |