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California Wine Atlas

Pedro Ximenes

White wine grape · reported 2000–2002

Further reading: VIVC catalog entry

Pedro Ximénez, listed here as Pedro Ximenes, is a Spanish white grape used as the base for sweet, dark PX sherry made in Jerez and Montilla-Moriles. California's CDFA reports mention it only from 2000 through 2002, confined to a single crush district, with volumes never exceeding about 5.7 tons crushed in a year. Prices topped out at $150 a ton, a level consistent with bulk or fortified-wine use. No bearing acreage was ever separately reported, and the variety disappears from state reports after 2002.

What kind of grape this is

Registry name
PEDRO XIMENEZ

CDFA prints it as Pedro Ximenes

Species
VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
Berry color
BLANC
Country of origin
SPAIN
Parentage
HEBEN×unknown

confirmed by DNA markers

Synonyms
37

names this grape is known by elsewhere, per VIVC

Approved on a US label
Pedro Ximenes

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 Pedro Ximenes, 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

1

district-year of crush

1 of 17 crush districts, 1 crop year

1

district-year 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 yeardistricttons$/tonshare of district
2001165.7$1500.08%