Casa del Blanco

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Casa del Blanco in Spain

Latitude: 38.8°–39.1° N
Vineyard altitude: 640 m to 700 m
Production zone: 47,421 ha

Worked out from the boundaries (smallest container first). They follow whole communes, so a neighbour sharing a commune can show up here too.

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 Casa del Blanco must meet.

2 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Actual alc. min. %	Acidity min. g/l	In wood min. months	In bottle min. months
Casa del Blanco red wine	Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot +2	7.5	53	12.5	5	12	12
Casa del Blanco white wine	–	7.5	53	11.5	6	–	–

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.

Other varieties allowed

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

11 varieties ·

Airén, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Grenache, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 20.4 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,232 growing degree days (Winkler V).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 659 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 20.4 °C; Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 2,232; Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
Growing-season rain: 212 mm; Of 432 mm a year
Harvest rain: 78 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 651 m; Vineyard point 2, 707 m; Vineyard point 3, 648 m; Vineyard point 4, 643 m; Vineyard point 5, 648 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. Pago FlorentinoVery similarCompared with Casa del Blanco: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. RiesiVery similarCompared with Casa del Blanco: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. Campo de La GuardiaVery similarCompared with Casa del Blanco: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Casa del Blanco

20.4 °C

Pago Florentino

20.4 °C

Riesi

20.4 °C

Campo de La Guardia

20.4 °C

Growing degree days

Casa del Blanco

2,232

Pago Florentino

2,236

Riesi

2,233

Campo de La Guardia

2,219

Growing-season rain

Casa del Blanco

212 mm

Pago Florentino

208 mm

Riesi

196 mm

Campo de La Guardia

223 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, 78 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: Casa del Blanco (Official Journal C 65, 25.02.2021; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2126113' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method

Still to check (3)

Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
From the specification: Vino de pago in Manzanares (Ciudad Real). Section 7 lists only red main varieties, so the white wine's varieties are not given. Red wines: each variety is fermented on skins for at least 10 days and aged separately in oak for at least 12 months, then blended and bottle-aged for at least 12 months (24 months in all). One yield limit (7 500 kg/ha, 52.5 hl/ha) applies to the estate. The 2014 technical file (Spanish) gives higher minimum actual alcohol (red 13 % vol, white 12 % vol) than the single document (12.5 and 11.5 kept) and red minimum acidity as "5 en miliequivalentes por litro"; white musts settle at 10–15 °C for at least 18 hours and ferment at 13–21 °C.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.