Vaccarèse
Red wine grape · never named in a CDFA report
Further reading: UC Davis Foundation Plant Services
Vaccarèse, also known as Brun Argenté, is a red grape from the southern Rhône, historically one of the minor varieties permitted in the Châteauneuf-du-Pape blend though seldom grown as a standalone wine. Producers in California grow and bottle it today, but the variety has never been printed as its own line in any CDFA crush or acreage report — the atlas holds no production series for it, no tonnage, price, or planted-acreage data at all. Its California page carries identity information from grape registries only, reflecting a real planting that state agricultural statistics have simply never captured.
What kind of grape this is
- FPS selections
- 2
distinct clones and selections held at UC Davis
Registries
What is published
Counts describe what this atlas holds for Vaccarèse, 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
- 0
district-years of crush
no district has reported tonnage for it
- 0
district-years of Brix
Brix is published only where tonnage is
- 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
Why it is here
No CDFA Grape Crush or Grape Acreage Report has named this grape in the 26 years this atlas covers, so every figure above is zero and none of them is a gap. It is here because California demonstrably bottles it: Tablas Creek Esprit de Tablas 2024.