Cabernet Pfeffer, listed here as Pfeffer Cabernet, is a rare California heirloom red long confused with true Cabernet varieties despite having no confirmed genetic relation to them; its exact European origins remain unresolved and no Foundation Plant Services entry lists certified planting stock for it today. CDFA crush data run from 2000 through 2014 across four districts, with volumes always small, peaking around 30 tons in a year, before the variety disappears from state reports entirely. No bearing acreage was ever separately recorded. It survives mainly as a curiosity among a handful of old California vineyards rather than a commercial planting.
What kind of grape this is
- Registry name
- CABERNET PFEFFER
- Berry color
- NOIR
- Country of origin
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Synonyms
- 1
CDFA prints it as Pfeffer Cabernet
names this grape is known by elsewhere, per VIVC
Registries
What is published
Counts describe what this atlas holds for Pfeffer Cabernet, 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
- 22
district-years of crush
4 of 17 crush districts, 14 crop years
- 22
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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