Peloursin is an old, obscure black grape from France's Isere region. It has essentially no footprint in California's own numbers, no acreage ever recorded, and crush reports carrying it for just ten vintages between 2005 and 2014 across three districts, then nothing since. Its real relevance to the state is genetic rather than commercial: Peloursin is one of the two parents of Durif, the grape California grows and bottles as Petite Sirah. On its own it survives here only as a curiosity in a handful of growers' collections, not as a planted commercial variety.
What kind of grape this is
- Registry name
- PELOURSIN NOIR
- Species
- VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
- Berry color
- NOIR
- Country of origin
- FRANCE
- Synonyms
- 59
- Approved on a US label
- Peloursin
- FPS selections
- 4
CDFA prints it as Peloursin
names this grape is known by elsewhere, per VIVC
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 Peloursin, 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
- 15
district-years of crush
3 of 17 crush districts, 10 crop years
- 15
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
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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