What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Arribes in Spain
- Latitude
- 40.7°–41.7° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 568 m to 769 m
- Production zone
- 178,353 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 Arribes must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
11 varieties ·
Albillo Mayor, Albillo Real, Bruñal, Doña Blanca, Grenache, Juan García, Mencía, Rufete, Syrah, Tempranillo, Verdejo
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.5 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,615 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 668 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.5 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,615
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 297 mm
- Of 597 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 120 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 771 m; Vineyard point 2, 521 m; Vineyard point 3, 718 m; Vineyard point 4, 623 m; Vineyard point 5, 707 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. CalatayudVery similarCompared with Arribes: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. UrueñaVery similarCompared with Arribes: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. RuedaVery similarCompared with Arribes: same season warmth, drier (−60 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, 120 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: Arribes (Official Journal C, C/2026/743, 5.2.2026; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2130773' 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: The register groups white, orange and rosé wines (including barrel-fermented whites and aged rosés) under one set of analytical limits; they are split here because their grape rules differ. Orange wine needs at least seven days' maceration on skins; 'Fermentado en barrica' wines use barrels of at most 600 litres. Varieties listed (17): Albillo Mayor, Albillo Real, Bruñal – Albarín Tinto, Doña Blanca – Malvasía Castellana, Gajo Arroba, Garnacha Tinta, Garro – Mandón, Juan García, Mencía, Merenzao – Bastardillo Chico, Rabigato – Puesta en Cruz, Rufete, Syrah, Tempranillo, Tijonera, Tinto Jeromo, Verdejo. Continuous presses and high-speed centrifuges are prohibited. From the older Spanish technical file (Ares(2014)2130773): minimum density 2 000 vines/ha, and 'Roble' (rosé and red wines) needs at least 3 months in oak barrels (added as a red product; Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva follow general law and barrels for them are limited to 330 l and 8 years). That file differs from values kept here: minimum actual alcohol 11.5 % vol (white, rosé, young red) and 12.2 % vol (aged red), minimum total acidity 4.5 g/l, and at least 60 % Malvasía Castellana in whites and 60 % Juan García, Rufete and/or Tempranillo in rosés and reds.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.