What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού in Cyprus
- Latitude
- 34.7°–34.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 607 m to 1,029 m
- Production zone
- 26,003 ha
Contains 2 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού - Αφάμης, Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού - Λαόνα
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 must meet.
Blend rules
Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού λευκός οίνος
- ≥ 30% recommended variety with Μαύρο (alternative blend) · Allowed
- – recommended and local authorised red varieties · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
23 varieties ·
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Canella, Chardonnay, Giannoudhi, Kypreiko Kokkino, Maratheftiko, Mataro, Mavro, Merlot, Morocanella, Ofthalmo, Omio, Promara, Riesling Italian, Riesling Rhine, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Spourtiko, Syrah, Vertzami, Vlouriko, Xinisteri
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,200
Vines per hectare, minimum
600 m
Lowest vineyard allowed
Training
Systems allowed
low goblet (χαμηλό κυπελλοειδές); linear (γραμμικό σχήμα)
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 21.9 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,550 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 634 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.9 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,550
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 83 mm
- Of 363 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 29 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 706 m; Vineyard point 2, 769 m; Vineyard point 3, 595 m; Vineyard point 4, 573 m; Vineyard point 5, 525 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. ΔαφνέςVery similarCompared with Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού: same season warmth, wetter (+32 mm).
2. GozoVery similarCompared with Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού: same season warmth, wetter (+43 mm).
3. MaltaVery similarCompared with Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού: same season warmth, wetter (+42 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, 29 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 (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 scanned 2004 Cypriot order 706/2004, which covers all four wine regions (Laona Akama, Vouni Panagias-Ampelitis, Pitsilia, Krasochoria Lemesou) in one text; the OCR has lost many words and figures, including the minimum natural alcohol for red and white wine and several variety names and shares. Wines must come from vineyards at least five years old and spend at least six months maturing in bottle; red Maratheftiko must also spend at least six months in oak barrels of up to 225 litres (no more than 3 years old). Annex II gives maximum yields of 52 and 42 hl/ha by variety group (column headings lost; local varieties such as Mavro, Kanella, Giannoudhi in the 52 column, international varieties in the 42 column), and 45 or 36 hl/ha for two sub-regions of Annex I whose identifying letters are illegible, so yields are not recorded per product. The red-wine blend percentages for Pitsilia and Krasochoria Lemesou are illegible apart from the second variety's share above 30 %. Krasochoria Lemesou covers parcels at 600 m and above in the listed communities (750 m and above east of the river for Vouni, Koilani, Mandria and Omodos).
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.