What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Almansa in Spain
- Latitude
- 38.7°–39.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 689 m to 1,019 m
- Production zone
- 200,487 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 Almansa must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
12 varieties · Almansa quality sparkling wines (red, white and rosé)
Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Grenache, Merlot, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Mourvèdre, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo, Verdejo
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.1 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,952 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 776 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.1 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,952
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 224 mm
- Of 400 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 83 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 877 m; Vineyard point 2, 656 m; Vineyard point 3, 694 m; Vineyard point 4, 803 m; Vineyard point 5, 851 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. ΜαντινείαVery similarCompared with Almansa: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. BucelasVery similarCompared with Almansa: same season warmth, wetter (+30 mm).
3. Ρομπόλα ΚεφαλληνίαςVery similarCompared with Almansa: same season warmth, wetter (+41 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, 83 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
- Single document: Almansa (Official Journal C, C/2026/3796, 17.7.2026; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2125898' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Varieties (section 8): Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Garnacha Blanca, Garnacha Tinta, Garnacha Tintorera, Macabeo – Viura, Merlot, Monastrell, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo, Verdejo; blending white and red grapes is not permitted. Yields depend on grape colour and training, so they are not set per product: gobelet white 7,860 kg/ha and 55 hl/ha, gobelet red 6,430 kg/ha and 47.58 hl/ha, trellised white 11,430 kg/ha and 80 hl/ha, trellised red 10,000 kg/ha and 74 hl/ha. Press yields are 74 l/100 kg for red grapes and 70 l/100 kg for white; red wines macerate for at least 48 hours; ageing is in oak barrels. Technical file (Spanish) adds Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva reds and a barrel-fermented / Crianza white: ageing periods are 18, 24 and 36 months for Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva in 330-litre oak barrels (the Reserva figure, printed as "18,24", is in this note only); aged reds have at least 12 % vol actual alcohol and minimum acidity printed as "4,5 en miliequivalentes por litro", left null. Its maximum yields differ from the single document (red gobelet 45 hl/ha, red trellis 70 hl/ha). Sweetening only with rectified concentrated must from the area; fermentation temperature at most 20 °C white, 25 °C rosé, 28 °C red.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.