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California Wine Atlas

Sauvignon Gris

White wine grape · reported 2017–2025

Further reading: VIVC catalog entry

Sauvignon Gris is a pink-berried mutation of Sauvignon Blanc, grown in small quantities in France and increasingly noted for a fuller, richer style than its white sibling. California's CDFA crush data for it begin in 2017, a recent addition, and run through 2025 across five districts; no bearing acreage has yet been reported separately. Volumes have grown quickly, from a peak of about 79 tons in earlier years to roughly 157 tons crushed in 2025 alone, with prices reaching about $3,110 a ton. It remains an emerging planting rather than an established California category.

What kind of grape this is

Species
VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
Berry color
ROSE
Country of origin
FRANCE
Parentage
SAUVIGNON BLANC MUTATION

confirmed by DNA markers

Synonyms
4

names this grape is known by elsewhere, per VIVC

Approved on a US label
Sauvignon gris

the names TTB permits on a bottle

FPS selections
4

distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis

What is published

Counts describe what this atlas holds for Sauvignon Gris, 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

33

district-years of crush

5 of 17 crush districts, 9 crop years

33

district-years of Brix

tonnage-weighted at the crusher, Crush Report Table 3

1

producer 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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Growers in this atlas's roster

1 of this atlas’s 2772 curated producers, 1 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.