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California Wine Atlas

Lambrusco

Red wine grape · reported 2000–2025

Further reading: UC Davis Foundation Plant Services

Lambrusco is associated with Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. California's record for it is thin: the atlas shows only 93 bearing acres, all in a single 2009 report, entirely in Madera County, and no acreage has been logged since. Total history amounts to 16 county-years across just 2 counties over 15 crop years of district data. In its home region it is typically made into a lightly sparkling red; in California it has never been more than a marginal, largely undocumented planting.

What kind of grape this is

Approved on a US label
Lambrusco

the names TTB permits on a bottle

FPS selections
1

distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis

What is published

Counts describe what this atlas holds for Lambrusco, 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.

16

county-years of acreage

2 counties

19

district-years of crush

3 of 17 crush districts, 15 crop years

19

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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