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California Wine Atlas

Sauvignon Musque

White wine grape · reported 2000–2022

Further reading: VIVC catalog entry

Sauvignon Musque is a musk-scented clone of Sauvignon Blanc, with extra floral, tropical-fruit aromatics on top of Sauvignon's usual character. California's numbers show it rising and then abruptly vanishing from official tracking: bearing acreage grew from 109 acres in 2000 to 335 acres five years before the present, with 352 acres logged as of 2021, and then it drops out of the acreage report entirely, with crush data ending the following year too. No UC Davis Foundation Plant Services registry entry exists for it, so it likely persists only as budwood passed grower to grower.

What kind of grape this is

Species
VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
Berry color
BLANC

Registries

What is published

Counts describe what this atlas holds for Sauvignon Musque, 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.

128

county-years of acreage

8 counties

161

district-years of crush

13 of 17 crush districts, 22 crop years

161

district-years of Brix

tonnage-weighted at the crusher, Crush Report Table 3

2

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

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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Growers in this atlas's roster

2 of this atlas’s 2772 curated producers, 2 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.