Chozas Carrascal

What is made here

Wine colours

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

The source gives no colour for 1 wine category here, so the colours below are incomplete.

Where it is

Chozas Carrascal in Spain

Latitude: 39.3°–39.6° N
Vineyard altitude: 460 m to 725 m
Production zone: 81,417 ha

Lies within
Utiel-Requena, Cava, Valencia

Covers the same area as
Los Balagueses

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 Chozas Carrascal must meet.

4 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
Chozas Carrascal (wine)	–	–	–	–	–	–
Chozas Carrascal red wine	Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Macabeo - Viura +3	7.5	53	13	4.5	5
Chozas Carrascal white wine	Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Macabeo - Viura +3	9	63	12.5	4.5	–
Chozas Carrascal rosé	Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Macabeo - Viura +3	–	56	12.5	4.5	–

From the official production rules (pliego de condiciones). 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 · Chozas Carrascal (wine)

Bobal, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Grenache, Macabeo, Merlot, Mourvèdre, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 19.6 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,052 growing degree days (Winkler IV).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 578 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 19.6 °C; Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 2,052; Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
Growing-season rain: 262 mm; Of 451 mm a year
Harvest rain: 95 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 630 m; Vineyard point 2, 397 m; Vineyard point 3, 365 m; Vineyard point 4, 957 m; Vineyard point 5, 540 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. Terra AltaVery similarCompared with Chozas Carrascal: same season warmth, wetter (+33 mm).

2. PalmelaVery similarCompared with Chozas Carrascal: same season warmth, drier (−37 mm).

3. SetúbalVery similarCompared with Chozas Carrascal: same season warmth, drier (−39 mm).

Growing-season temperature

Chozas Carrascal

19.6 °C

Terra Alta

19.6 °C

Palmela

19.6 °C

Setúbal

19.5 °C

Growing degree days

Chozas Carrascal

2,052

Terra Alta

2,055

Palmela

2,059

Setúbal

2,037

Growing-season rain

Chozas Carrascal

262 mm

Terra Alta

295 mm

Palmela

224 mm

Setúbal

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, 95 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
Product specification: Chozas Carrascal
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 Requena. Section 8 names six main grapes without shares; red wine may be multivarietal or a monovarietal Cabernet Franc. Planting density is given as maximum row and vine spacing (white below 1.3 x 2.5 m, red below 1.4 x 2.5 m, Bobal up to 2.5 x 2.5 m), not vines per hectare. Reds macerate for at least 14 days; white wine is fermented in oak barrels and rosé is macerated in oak for at least three weeks.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.