Muscat Blanc

White wine grape · reported 2000–2025

Further reading: UC Davis Foundation Plant Services

Muscat Blanc is an aromatic Muscat grape whose exact registry identity is ambiguous, its name maps to more than one cataloged variety internationally, but it is the Muscat used in California for both table wine and dessert styles, often labeled Muscat Canelli. The state's own numbers show real growth: bearing acreage more than doubled, from 1,149 acres in 2000 to 2,728 acres in 2025, spread across 30 counties. It carries intense floral and grape-blossom aromatics, and is made both as a light, off-dry white and, less often, as a sweeter dessert wine.

What kind of grape this is

Approved on a US label: Muscat blanc (Muscat Canelli)
FPS selections: 3

What is published

Counts describe what this atlas holds for Muscat Blanc, 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.

680

county-years of acreage

30 counties, 2,728 bearing acres in 2025

435

district-years of crush

17 of 17 crush districts, 26 crop years

435

district-years of Brix

tonnage-weighted at the crusher, Crush Report Table 3

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

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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