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PDO · Appellation profile

Neusiedlersee

104,032 haProduction zone
12Wines in the rules
17.0 °CGrowing season · warm
IIWinkler region

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Neusiedlersee in Austria

Latitude
47.7°–48.1° N
Vineyard altitude
117 m to 173 m
Production zone
104,032 ha

Lies within
Burgenland

Worked out from the boundaries (smallest container first). They follow whole communes, so a neighbour sharing a commune can show up here too.

Boundary drawn from whole communes, so it is a little larger than the legal zone. Boundary: Eurac Research PDO inventory (CC0). Country outlines: Natural Earth. Dots on the zone map are the vineyard points used for climate.

Showing every colour The colour filter changes the rules and grapes. Climate, vintages and soils describe the vineyards, so they stay the same.

01 · What the law says

The rules

Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Neusiedlersee must meet.

12 wines in the rules, all colours.
WineMain grape(s)Max yield
t/ha		Must weight
min.		Grape ripeness
min. % pot. alc.		Actual alc.
min. %		After enrichment
max. % alc.		Acidity
min. g/l
Neusiedlersee Zweigelt1015 °KMW9.512154
Neusiedlersee Reserve Zweigelt1015 °KMW9.513154
Neusiedlersee fruchtsüß Welschriesling10––5154
Neusiedlersee edelsüß Welschriesling10––5154
Neusiedlersee Kabinett –1017 °KMW11.19–4
Neusiedlersee Spätlese –1019 °KMW12.85–4
Neusiedlersee Auslese –1021 °KMW14.55–4
Neusiedlersee Beerenauslese –1025 °KMW17.95–4
Neusiedlersee Ausbruch –1027 °KMW19.75–4
Neusiedlersee Trockenbeerenauslese –1030 °KMW225–4
Neusiedlersee Eiswein –1025 °KMW17.95–4
Neusiedlersee Strohwein –1025 °KMW17.95–4

From the official production rules (EU single document, Official Journal). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Other varieties allowed

Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.

33 varieties ·

Blauburger, Blauer Burgunder, Blauer Portugieser, Blauer Wildbacher, Blaufränkisch, Bouvier, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Frühroter Veltliner, Furmint, Gelber Muskateller, Goldburger, Grauer Burgunder, Grüner Veltliner, Jubiläumsrebe, Merlot, Muller Thurgau, Muskat Ottonel, Neuburger, Riesling, Roesler, Roter Vetliner, Rotgipfler, Ráthay, Sankt Laurent, Sauvignon Blanc, Scheurebe, Sylvaner, Syrah, Welschriesling, Zierfandler, Zweigelt

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 17.0 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,503 growing degree days (Winkler II).

The average year  1991–2020, vineyards at about 127 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
0.3° 38 Jan 1.9° 36 Feb 6.0° 46 Mar 11.4° 45 Apr 16.0° 71 May 19.9° 70 Jun 21.9° 74 Jul 21.6° 70 Aug 16.6° 71 Sep 11.4° 52 Oct 6.2° 52 Nov 1.3° 45 Dec
Growing-season temperature
17.0 °C
Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days
1,503
Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
Growing-season rain
454 mm
Of 671 mm a year
Harvest rain
123 mm
September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 124 m; Vineyard point 2, 158 m; Vineyard point 3, 116 m; Vineyard point 4, 119 m; Vineyard point 5, 118 m), moved to each point's height from the model's terrain. Indices that need daily data are not captured yet. How the climate figures are made.

Closest climates in the database

Picked by the data, not by hand: the profiles nearest on season warmth (counted twice), degree days, rain, ripening-month nights and day–night range. Neighbours within 30 km are left out, as they share the same weather.

1. PannonhalmaVery similarCompared with Neusiedlersee: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. JužnoslovenskáVery similarCompared with Neusiedlersee: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Pineau des CharentesVery similarCompared with Neusiedlersee: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Neusiedlersee
17.0 °C
Pannonhalma
17.0 °C
Južnoslovenská
17.0 °C
Pineau des Charentes
17.0 °C

Growing degree days

Neusiedlersee
1,503
Pannonhalma
1,499
Južnoslovenská
1,507
Pineau des Charentes
1,494

Growing-season rain

Neusiedlersee
454 mm
Pannonhalma
463 mm
Južnoslovenská
465 mm
Pineau des Charentes
442 mm

03 · Year by year

35 vintages

Each column is one growing season: heat above or below the 1991–2020 average, and rain at harvest. Pick a year for the details.

Warmer than averageCooler than averageHarvest rain (Sep–Oct)Average harvest rain, 123 mm
2025
Growing-season temp.
Growing degree days
Harvest rain
Growing-season rain
September nights
Hot days and frosts

Seasons are labelled by harvest year (April–October). Year-to-year changes from ERA5-Land; tested against station records in Alto Adige (r = 0.94 for season temperature at Bolzano). Rain varies more locally, so treat single-season rain with some caution. Vintage ratings, harvest dates and frost or hail events have places in the data model but are not loaded yet.

04 · Where the numbers come from

Sources

  1. A geospatial inventory of regulatory information for wine protected designations of origin in Europe · Candiago et al., Scientific Data 9, 394 (2022); Eurac Research · CC0
  2. ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
  3. OpenStreetMap vineyard areas (landuse=vineyard), from Geofabrik country extracts · OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
  4. Copernicus DEM GLO-90 (AWS open data tiles) · European Space Agency / Copernicus · Copernicus DEM licence
  5. Single document: Neusiedlersee (Official Journal C 68, 24.2.2023; and the product specification 'Produktspezifikation Neusiedlersee.pdf' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
  6. Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
  7. Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
  • Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
  • From the specification: Reserve wines may be aged in wooden casks but no minimum ageing is given. Fruchtsüß wines (overripe grapes) must meet the Spätlese/Auslese criteria and edelsüß wines (raisined grapes) the Beerenauslese/Trockenbeerenauslese criteria; their must weights are not stated. Wines may be made and bottled outside the area by producers whose vineyards lie in it. The national product specification (2011) adds the Austrian quality levels with their own limits: Qualitätswein 15 °KMW (9.5 % vol), enrichment up to 2 % vol (2.5 % in poor years) and sweetening up to 15 g/l; Kabinett 17 °KMW; Spätlese 19; Auslese 21; Beerenauslese and Eiswein 25; Ausbruch 27; Trockenbeerenauslese 30; Strohwein/Schilfwein 25 °KMW after at least three months' drying on straw or reeds (30 °KMW allows pressing after two). Prädikat wines may not be enriched or sweetened, and bottled Spätlese may not be sold before 1 January, higher levels before 1 May, after the harvest. Prädikat products carry no grape rule: any variety on the specification's list may be used. The specification's maximum yield of 9,000 kg grapes or 6,750 l wine per hectare contradicts the 10 t/ha kept from the single document. This older text predates the DAC rules: its Qualitätswein minimum actual alcohol (9 % vol) differs from the 12 and 13 % vol kept for the red and Reserve wines, and it does not mention the fruchtsüß and edelsüß types.
  • National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.