Arabako Txakolina

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Arabako Txakolina in Spain

Latitude: 42.9°–43.2° N
Vineyard altitude: 141 m to 356 m
Production zone: 33,182 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 Arabako Txakolina must meet.

6 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Actual alc. min. %	After enrichment max. % alc.	Acidity min. g/l
Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava white wines	–	13	91	9.5	15	3.5
Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava rosé wines	30% recommended red variety	13	91	9.5	15	3.5
Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava red wines	–	13	91	9.5	15	3.5
Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava White Berezia	–	13	91	11.5	–	6
Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava Rosé Berezia	30% recommended red variety	13	91	11.5	–	5
Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava Red Berezia	–	13	91	11.5	–	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.

Blend rules

Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava white wines

≤ 20% Gros Manseng / Petit Manseng / Sauvignon Blanc / Riesling / Chardonnay / Pinot Noir / Cabernet Franc · Allowed
– Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed

Blend rules

Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava rosé wines

≥ 30% recommended red variety · Main grape
≤ 20% Gros Manseng / Petit Manseng / Sauvignon Blanc / Riesling / Chardonnay / Pinot Noir / Cabernet Franc · Allowed
– Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed

Blend rules

Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava red wines

≤ 20% Gros Manseng / Petit Manseng / Sauvignon Blanc / Riesling / Chardonnay / Pinot Noir / Cabernet Franc · Allowed
– Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed

Blend rules

Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava White Berezia

≤ 20% Gros Manseng / Petit Manseng / Sauvignon Blanc / Riesling / Chardonnay / Pinot Noir / Cabernet Franc · Allowed
– Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed

Blend rules

Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava Rosé Berezia

≥ 30% recommended red variety · Main grape
≤ 20% Gros Manseng / Petit Manseng / Sauvignon Blanc / Riesling / Chardonnay / Pinot Noir / Cabernet Franc · Allowed
– Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed

Blend rules

Arabako Txakolina / Txakoli de Álava / Chacolí de Álava Red Berezia

≤ 20% Gros Manseng / Petit Manseng / Sauvignon Blanc / Riesling / Chardonnay / Pinot Noir / Cabernet Franc · Allowed
– Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed

Other varieties allowed

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

8 varieties ·

Chardonnay, Gros Manseng, Hondarrabi Beltza, Hondarrabi Zuri, Petit Courbu, Petit Manseng, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

Permitted

Irrigation

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 16.3 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,350 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 285 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 16.3 °C; Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 1,350; Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
Growing-season rain: 540 mm; Of 1,014 mm a year
Harvest rain: 155 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 247 m; Vineyard point 2, 253 m; Vineyard point 3, 336 m; Vineyard point 4, 330 m; Vineyard point 5, 259 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 complex terrain (height corrections up to 2.7 °C); absolute values may be several degrees out, year-to-year changes are more reliable.

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. Chorey-lès-BeauneVery similarCompared with Arabako Txakolina: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. RullyVery similarCompared with Arabako Txakolina: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. Bâtard-MontrachetVery similarCompared with Arabako Txakolina: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Arabako Txakolina

16.3 °C

Chorey-lès-Beaune

16.3 °C

Rully

16.2 °C

Bâtard-Montrachet

16.2 °C

Growing degree days

Arabako Txakolina

1,350

Chorey-lès-Beaune

1,353

Rully

1,341

Bâtard-Montrachet

1,330

Growing-season rain

Arabako Txakolina

540 mm

Chorey-lès-Beaune

540 mm

Rully

543 mm

Bâtard-Montrachet

540 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, 155 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: Arabako Txakolina (Official Journal C, C/2025/6777, 23.12.2025; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2102335' 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 (10): Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay, Gros Manseng, Hondarrabi Beltza, Hondarrabi Zuri, Petit Courbu, Petit Manseng, Pinot Noir, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc. The 20 % limit on the 'authorised' (non-recommended) varieties applies to each winery's vineyard area, not the wine. White and rosé wines share one set of analytical limits. 'Berezia' wines must be fermented in vessels such as fine wood, ceramic or cement; no ageing periods are given. Varietal wines need at least 85 % of recommended varieties.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.