Pinot St. George is an old, confusingly named California red — despite the "Pinot" in its name, Foundation Plant Services actually matches it to Négrette, the southwestern French grape, reflecting a long history of mistaken identity for this variety in the state. CDFA reports it in a single year, 2000, within one crush district, crushing just 2 tons statewide that year. No bearing acreage was ever separately recorded, and it never reappears in later reports. Its brief, thin California record fits a grape whose true identity was uncertain even to growers who planted it.
What kind of grape this is
- Approved on a US label
- Négrette
- FPS selections
- 4
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 Pinot St George, 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 year | district | tons | $/ton | share of district |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | 2 | $3,200 | <0.01% |