Touriga here is matched by the atlas to Touriga Nacional, a Portuguese red grape and a main component of Port and Douro table wines. In California's CDFA reports it appears in exactly one year, 2000, across eight crush districts — with about 67 tons crushed statewide and prices reaching $1,450 a ton — before disappearing from the records entirely. That single-year appearance suggests the grape was subsequently folded into differently spelled or more specific varietal listings rather than actually vanishing from California vineyards.
What kind of grape this is
- Registry name
- TOURIGA NACIONAL
- Species
- VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
- Berry color
- NOIR
- Country of origin
- PORTUGAL
- Synonyms
- 22
- Approved on a US label
- Touriga
- FPS selections
- 9
CDFA prints it as Touriga
names this grape is known by elsewhere, per VIVC
the names TTB permits on a bottle
distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis
What is published
Counts describe what this atlas holds for Touriga, 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
- 8
district-years of crush
8 of 17 crush districts, 1 crop year
- 8
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
Every crush observation
Reported by crush district — never by county or AVA
| crop year | district | tons | $/ton | share of district |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 10 | 7.3 | — | 0.05% |
| 2000 | 11 | 8 | $500 | <0.01% |
| 2000 | 13 | 28.9 | — | <0.01% |
| 2000 | 14 | 15.3 | — | <0.01% |
| 2000 | 2 | 1.5 | $1,450 | <0.01% |
| 2000 | 4 | 3.8 | — | <0.01% |
| 2000 | 7 | 1.4 | — | <0.01% |
| 2000 | 8 | 0.8 | $1,400 | <0.01% |
Growers in this atlas's roster
- Miramonte Winerybottled
Winery · Touriga
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.