What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Binissalem in Spain
- Latitude
- 39.6°–39.7° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 93 m to 134 m
- Production zone
- 15,419 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 Binissalem must meet.
Blend rules
Binissalem red wines
- ≥ 30% Manto Negro · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Gorgollassa · Allowed
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Binissalem rosé wines
- ≤ 30% Gorgollassa · Allowed
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Binissalem white wines
- ≥ 50% Moll / Moscatel · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Binissalem sparkling wine (white and rosé)
- ≥ 50% Moll (white sparkling, no Moscatel) · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Gorgollassa (rosé sparkling) · 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.
15 varieties · Binissalem sparkling wine (white and rosé)
Cabernet Sauvignon, Callet, Chardonnay, Giró Ros, Gorgollassa, Macabeo, Manto Negro, Merlot, Moll, Moscatel de Alejandria, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Mourvèdre, Parellada, Syrah, Tempranillo
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,225
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
gobelet; trellising
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 21.8 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,517 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 122 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.8 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,517
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 243 mm
- Of 466 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 112 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 119 m; Vineyard point 2, 90 m; Vineyard point 3, 173 m; Vineyard point 4, 103 m; Vineyard point 5, 123 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. EriceVery similarCompared with Binissalem: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Delia NivolelliVery similarCompared with Binissalem: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. SiciliaVery similarCompared with Binissalem: same season warmth, drier (−25 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, 112 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: Binissalem ( Official Journal C, C/2026/4121, 27.7.2026; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2084019' 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: Grape-to-wine yield is at most 0.72 hl per 100 kg of grapes (exceptionally 0.74); recorded yields are for varieties other than Parellada, which may give 10,000 kg/ha (72 hl/ha; 7,500 kg/ha and 54 hl/ha for 'Vinyet'); the 'Vinyet' limit for other varieties is 6,750 kg/ha (48.60 hl/ha). Base wines for sparkling wine need at least 10 % total alcohol. Wines with over 12 g/l residual sugar are allowed in each colour. Continuous presses, high-speed centrifugal crushers and heat extraction of colour are prohibited. The older national technical file (2014) gives higher minimum acidities (4 g/l red, 4.2 white and rosé, 4.5 sparkling) and yields of 9,900 kg/ha (73.26 hl/ha), 11,000 for Parellada; the single-document values are kept.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.