Palomino is historically associated with Jerez in Spain, the base grape of sherry, though the atlas carries no confirmed origin record for it. California's bearing acreage has collapsed since 2000, falling from 743 to just 67 acres in 2025, a decline of over 90 percent, concentrated almost entirely in Fresno County, which holds 79 percent of the statewide total. Once used more widely in California for fortified wine production, it is now a small and still-shrinking planting.
What kind of grape this is
- Approved on a US label
- Palomino
- FPS selections
- 1
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 Palomino, 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.
- 175
county-years of acreage
10 counties, 67 bearing acres in 2025
- 134
district-years of crush
12 of 17 crush districts, 26 crop years
- 134
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
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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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Growers in this atlas's roster
- Galleano Winerybottled
Winery · Palomino
- Ridge Vineyardsbottled
Winery · Ridge Historic Vines Blanc 2024, Ridge Historic Vines Blanc 2025, Ridge Old School Zinfandel 2024
2 of this atlas’s 2772 curated producers, 2 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.
Measured chemistry, from one producer's own sheets
Ridge Historic Vines Blanc 2024
52% palomino13.2 %
alcohol
3.68
pH
6.14 g/L
TA
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RS
Ridge Historic Vines Blanc 2025
40% palomino14 %
alcohol
3.6
pH
6.7 g/L
TA
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RS
Ridge Old School Zinfandel 2024
6% palomino15.7 %
alcohol
3.7
pH
6.68 g/L
TA
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RS
3 wines from 1 producer, each read from that producer’s own tech sheet and linked to it. No average is shown, and none should be computed from these. Wineries that publish tech sheets are selected by their own marketing departments, so a mean across them describes publishing habits rather than a grape.