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California Wine Atlas

Petit Manseng

White wine grape · never named in a CDFA report

Further reading: UC Davis Foundation Plant Services

Petit Manseng is a small, thick-skinned white grape from the French Pyrenees, used in its home region of Jurançon for late-harvest, botrytis-resistant dessert wines. The variety is grown and bottled by producers in California today, but it has never appeared as its own line in any CDFA crush or acreage report — the atlas holds no production series for it at all, no reported tonnage, price, or planted acreage. Its California page carries identity information only, a reminder that not every variety planted commercially here is captured in the state's official agricultural statistics.

What kind of grape this is

Approved on a US label
Petit Manseng

the names TTB permits on a bottle

FPS selections
2

distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis

What is published

Counts describe what this atlas holds for Petit Manseng, 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

0

district-years of crush

no district has reported tonnage for it

0

district-years of Brix

Brix is published only where tonnage is

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

Why it is here

No CDFA Grape Crush or Grape Acreage Report has named this grape in the 26 years this atlas covers, so every figure above is zero and none of them is a gap. It is here because California demonstrably bottles it: Tablas Creek Petit Manseng 2019.