Blauer Portugieser is a light-bodied, early-ripening red widely planted across Germany, Austria, and Hungary for easy, everyday drinking wines. California's CDFA reports mention it in only three years, 2000 through 2002, across two crush districts, with volumes never exceeding about 7 tons crushed in a year and prices topping out near $1,200 a ton. No Foundation Plant Services registry entry exists for California material under this name, and no bearing acreage was ever reported. Its appearance in the state's records reads as a brief, minor trial rather than an established planting.
What kind of grape this is
- Registry name
- PORTUGIESER BLAU
- Species
- VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
- Berry color
- NOIR
- Country of origin
- SLOVENIA
- Synonyms
- 115
CDFA prints it as Portugieser Blauer
names this grape is known by elsewhere, per VIVC
Registries
What is published
Counts describe what this atlas holds for Portugieser Blauer, 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
- 3
district-years of crush
2 of 17 crush districts, 2 crop years
- 3
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
Every crush observation
Reported by crush district — never by county or AVA
| crop year | district | tons | $/ton | share of district |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1 | 3.5 | $1,200 | <0.01% |
| 2000 | 4 | 7.1 | $1,190 | <0.01% |
| 2001 | 1 | 5.2 | $1,200 | <0.01% |