What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού - Αφάμης in Cyprus
- Latitude
- 34.8°–34.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 711 m to 1,039 m
- Production zone
- 4,662 ha
Lies within
Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού
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.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού - Αφάμης must meet.
Blend rules
Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού - Αφάμης λευκός οίνος
- – Mavro · Main grape
- ≥ 30% recommended variety blended with Mavro · Allowed
- – recommended and local permitted red varieties (Giannoudhi, Vlouriko and others) · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
18 varieties ·
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Canella, Chardonnay, Giannoudhi, Maratheftiko, Mavro, Merlot, Morocanella, Ofthalmo, Promara, Riesling Rhine, Semillon, Spourtiko, Syrah, Vertzami, Vlouriko, Xinisteri
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,200
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
low goblet (bush); linear (trellis)
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 21.0 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,350 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 855 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.0 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,350
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 98 mm
- Of 405 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 35 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 759 m; Vineyard point 2, 784 m; Vineyard point 3, 748 m; Vineyard point 4, 900 m; Vineyard point 5, 1,085 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.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
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. Ycoden-Daute-IsoraVery similarCompared with Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού - Αφάμης: same season warmth, drier (−20 mm).
2. Gran CanariaVery similarCompared with Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού - Αφάμης: same season warmth, wetter (+28 mm).
3. La GomeraVery similarCompared with Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού - Αφάμης: same season warmth, drier (−59 mm).
Growing-season temperature
Growing degree days
Growing-season rain
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, 35 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
- 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
- ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
- OpenStreetMap vineyard areas (landuse=vineyard), from Geofabrik country extracts · OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
- Copernicus DEM GLO-90 (AWS open data tiles) · European Space Agency / Copernicus · Copernicus DEM licence
- Product specification: Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού - Αφάμης (706_2004.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Source is the general Cypriot OEOP order 706/2004 covering Laona Akamas, Vouni Panagias-Ambelitis, Pitsilia and Krasochoria Lemesou; rules taken from the Pitsilia/Krasochoria Lemesou clauses. The scanned text has gaps: the red-wine minimum shares (in the other areas Maratheftiko or Ofthalmo at least 85 %, or Mavro at least 60 % with a recommended variety above 30 %), the minimum natural alcohol figures and the Afames subregion detail are illegible. Annex II maximum yields: 52 hl/ha for local varieties (Mavro, Canella, Giannoudhi, Morocanella, Promara, Spourtiko) and 42 hl/ha for international ones; footnotes give 45 and 36 hl/ha for specified subregions (which ones is illegible). All wines need at least six months' bottle ageing (εξάμηνη αναγωγική παλαίωση); red Maratheftiko at least six months in 225-litre oak barrels no more than 3 years old. Vineyards at least five years old; grapes harvested in plastic crates.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.