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California Wine Atlas

Tocai Friulano

White wine grape · reported 2000–2025

Further reading: UC Davis Foundation Plant Services

Tocai Friulano, also labeled Sauvignonasse, a name TTB now requires alongside it since the EU restricted 'Tocai' for Hungarian Tokaji, is a northern Italian white grape used for crisp, mineral white wine. California's numbers show a small, declining planting: bearing acreage has fallen from 117 acres in 2000 to 54 acres in the latest report, spread across 8 counties. It remains a minor variety here, grown by a small number of producers drawn to its Friulian pedigree rather than any large-scale commercial demand for it.

What kind of grape this is

Approved on a US label
Tocai Friulano; Sauvignonasse

the names TTB permits on a bottle

FPS selections
1

distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis

What is published

Counts describe what this atlas holds for Tocai Friulano, 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.

161

county-years of acreage

8 counties, 54 bearing acres in 2025

156

district-years of crush

10 of 17 crush districts, 26 crop years

156

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

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

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.