Mission is the grape Spanish missionaries carried into California, making it the state's oldest cultivated wine variety, though the atlas carries no confirmed genetic origin record for it. Its bearing acreage has fallen by more than half since 2000, from 750 to 296 acres in 2025, concentrated heavily in Fresno and San Joaquin counties, which together hold nearly 90 percent of the statewide total. Once used for sacramental and table wine, it now survives mainly as a legacy Central Valley planting.
What kind of grape this is
- Approved on a US label
- Mission
- FPS selections
- 8
the names TTB permits on a bottle
distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis
Registries
What is published
Counts describe what this atlas holds for Mission, 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.
- 291
county-years of acreage
18 counties, 296 bearing acres in 2025
- 211
district-years of crush
14 of 17 crush districts, 26 crop years
- 211
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
- Bedrock Wine Co.bottled
Winery · Papera Ranch
- Lost Ranch Winerylisted
Brand · Mission
2 of this atlas’s 2772 curated producers, 1 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.