Burger, white grape variety that was once very important in california, where it was the state’s most planted vinifera variety, having been promoted by one pioneer as greatly superior to the mission grape. The total had fallen to 1,165 acres/472 ha by 2012, mainly in the hot san joaquin valley, many of them planted in the early 1980s.
It is the almost extinct southern French variety Monbadon, probably a cross of Folle Blanche and Ugni Blanc that was cultivated to a limited extent in the Languedoc until the 1980s. It produces sizeable quantities of neutral wine.
