What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Baden in Germany
- Latitude
- 47.5°–49.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 158 m to 365 m
- Production zone
- 1,323,083 ha
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 Baden must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
51 varieties · 4 wines
Acolon, Auxerrois, Bacchus, Blauer Limberger, Blauer Portugieser, Blauer Trollinger, Bronner, Cabernet Carbon, Cabernet Cortis, Cabernet Cubin, Cabernet Dorio, Cabernet Dorsa, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Mitos, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Dakapo, Deckrot, Dornfelder, Dunkelfelder, Findling, Freisamer, Gelber Muskateller, Grüner Silvaner, Helios, Johanniter, Kerner, Merlot, Merzling, Monarch, Muller Thurgau, Muskat Ottonel, Müllerrebe, Nobling, Palas, Perle, Pinot Noir, Prior, Regent, Riesling, Roter Muskateller, Roter Traminer, Ruländer, Saint Laurent, Sauvignon Blanc, Scheurebe, Solaris, Syrah, Tauberschwarz, Weißer Burgunder, Weißer Gutedel
52 varieties ·
Acolon, Auxerrois, Bacchus, Blauer Limberger, Blauer Portugieser, Blauer Trollinger, Bronner, Cabernet Carbon, Cabernet Cortis, Cabernet Cubin, Cabernet Dorio, Cabernet Dorsa, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Mitos, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Dakapo, Deckrot, Dornfelder, Dunkelfelder, Findling, Freisamer, Gelber Muskateller, Grüner Silvaner, Helios, Johanniter, Kerner, Merlot, Merzling, Monarch, Muller Thurgau, Muskat Ottonel, Müllerrebe, Nobling, Palas, Perle, Pinot Noir, Prior, Regent, Riesling, Roter Gutedel, Roter Muskateller, Roter Traminer, Ruländer, Saint Laurent, Sauvignon Blanc, Scheurebe, Solaris, Syrah, Tauberschwarz, Weißer Burgunder, Weißer Gutedel
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 15.2 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,142 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 283 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 15.2 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,142
- Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 574 mm
- Of 972 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 154 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 198 m; Vineyard point 2, 220 m; Vineyard point 3, 460 m; Vineyard point 4, 221 m; Vineyard point 5, 314 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. WürttembergVery similarCompared with Baden: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Côtes du ForezVery similarCompared with Baden: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. AlsaceVery similarCompared with Baden: same season warmth, similar rain.
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, 154 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: Baden (gU Baden_111214.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Minimum natural alcohol / must weights vary by variety and by Bereich (higher in Markgräflerland, Kaiserstuhl, Tuniberg, Breisgau, Ortenau, Kraichgau and Badische Bergstraße than in Bodensee and Tauberfranken); the lowest values are recorded (Qualitätswein 8.0 % / 63 °Oe, up to 9.4 % / 72 °Oe; BA/Eiswein 18.1 % / 128 °Oe and TBA 22.1 % / 154 °Oe in the southern Bereiche). Federweißer must meet Qualitätswein conditions; Qualitätsliqueur wine actual alcohol at most 22 %. Yield 90 hl/ha plus 20 % carry-over, raisable by up to 10 hl in exceptional years. Bottle-fermented Sekt needs at least 9 months' total production time. Extra terms: Affentaler (Spätburgunder red), Badisch Rotgold (Grauburgunder + Spätburgunder Rotling), Classic, Ehrentrudis (Tuniberg Spätburgunder Weißherbst), Riesling-Hochgewächs; Bocksbeutel bottle traditional in Taubertal, Schüpfergrund and parts of Baden-Baden. Enrichment: Qualitätswein up to 15 % vol total; not Prädikatswein.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.