What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Condado de Huelva in Spain
- Latitude
- 36.8°–37.6° N
- Production zone
- 280,845 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 Condado de Huelva must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
10 varieties · 4 wines
Chardonnay, Colombard, Garrido Fino, Moscatel de Alejandria, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Palomino Fino, Pedro Ximénez, Sauvignon Blanc, Verdejo, Zalema
15 varieties ·
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Colombard, Garrido Fino, Merlot, Moscatel de Alejandria, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Palomino Fino, Pedro Ximénez, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo, Verdejo, Zalema
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
1,950
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
goblet; vara y pulgar; double cordon
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 22.3 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,641 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 36 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 22.3 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,641
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 202 mm
- Of 510 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 102 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 36 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:No vineyards are mapped here yet, so this is the climate at one point in the middle of the zone, which may not be where the vines are. Monthly reanalysis in complex terrain (height corrections up to 0.2 °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. LebrijaVery similarCompared with Condado de Huelva: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. SiracusaVery similarCompared with Condado de Huelva: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Montilla-MorilesVery similarCompared with Condado de Huelva: same season warmth, wetter (+27 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, 102 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)
- Single document: Condado de Huelva (Official Journal C, C/2026/4233, 31.7.2026; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2133043' 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: Maximum grape yield is 18,000 kg/ha for Zalema and 12,000 kg/ha for other varieties, not set per wine type. The two-year generoso ageing is an average (criaderas y soleras or añadas, oak up to 1,000 litres). White wines are aged at least one year in tanks or casks up to 650 litres; the document does not say whether this covers 'Joven'. Pedro Ximénez and Moscatel may include up to 30 % concentrated must and dry wine (at most 15 % dry wine). Density is at most 4,000 vines/ha. Condado de Huelva vinos generosos 'Condado Pálido' or 'Fino': the document sets an average age (for an average ageing period of at least two years), not a minimum ageing period, so none is recorded. Condado de Huelva vinos generosos 'Condado Viejo' or 'Oloroso', 'Amontillado' and 'Palo Cortado': the document sets an average age (for an average ageing period of at least two years), not a minimum ageing period, so none is recorded. Condado de Huelva vinos generosos de licor: the document sets an average age (for an average ageing period of at least two years), not a minimum ageing period, so none is recorded. The 12 t/ha yield recorded is the national technical file's single figure and the lower of the two variety limits (Zalema 18,000 kg/ha in the single document). That file gives 'Condado Viejo' 17% vol minimum actual alcohol, against 16% recorded from the single document; red wines are aged in barrels of at most 330 l.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.