Petit Verdot is a French variety from Bordeaux. California's bearing acreage has grown nearly tenfold since 2000, from 350 to 3,268 acres in 2025, spread across 32 counties led by Napa, San Luis Obispo, and San Joaquin, which together hold about 60 percent of the total. It is late-ripening with deep color and firm tannin. Traditionally a small blending component in Bordeaux-style reds, it is increasingly bottled as a stand-alone varietal wine in California.
What kind of grape this is
- Registry name
- VERDOT PETIT
- Species
- VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
- Berry color
- NOIR
- Country of origin
- FRANCE
- Synonyms
- 17
- Approved on a US label
- Petit Verdot
- FPS selections
- 5
CDFA prints it as Petit Verdot
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 Petit Verdot, 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.
- 687
county-years of acreage
32 counties, 3,268 bearing acres in 2025
- 407
district-years of crush
17 of 17 crush districts, 26 crop years
- 407
district-years of Brix
tonnage-weighted at the crusher, Crush Report Table 3
- 52
producers in this atlas
producers whose curated wine list names it — a curated roster of 2,772 producers, not a census of California
- 213
regions with a maturity date
modeled, 46 years
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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Modeled ripening date, year by year
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Growers in this atlas's roster
- Alexander Valley Vineyardsbottled
Winery · CYRUS, Cabernet Sauvignon
- Alpha Omegabottled
Winery · Era, Proprietary Red Atlas Peak, Proprietary Red Oak Knoll
- Beaulieu Vineyardbottled
Winery · Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, Rarity Cabernet Sauvignon and 4 more
- Black Stallion Winerybottled
Winery · Meritage Red Wine
- Brassfield Estatebottled
Winery · Kendra
- Bryant Family Vineyardbottled
Winery · Bettina
- Burgessbottled
Winery · Contadina
- Charles Krugbottled
Winery · Vintage Selection Cabernet Sauvignon
- Chateau St. Jeanbottled
Winery · 8555 Red Blend, 8555 Reserve Cuvee, Cinq Cepages
- Clos du Valbottled
Winery · Yettalil
- Darioushbottled
Winery · Library Signature Cabernet Sauvignon
- Eisele Vineyardbottled
Winery · Altagracia, Cabernet Sauvignon
and 40 more in the roster.
52 of this atlas’s 2772 curated producers, 36 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 Monte Bello 2021
5% petit verdot13.5 %
alcohol
3.46
pH
6.9 g/L
TA
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RS
1 wine 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.