Costa de Cantabria

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Costa de Cantabria in Spain

The boundary for Costa de Cantabria is not on Vinous yet. It is added by the geography step of the data pipeline.

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 Costa de Cantabria must meet.

2 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Grape ripeness min. % pot. alc.	Actual alc. min. %	Acidity min. g/l
Costa de Cantabria vino blanco	Albariño, Ondarrabi Zuri B, Riesling +3	11	77	9.5	9.5	5
Costa de Cantabria vino tinto	Albariño, Ondarrabi Zuri B, Riesling +3	11	77	10	10	5

From the official production rules (national product specification, via the EU register). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

3,000

Vines per hectare, minimum

02 · Where the numbers come from

Sources

eAmbrosia, the EU register of geographical indications (wine) · European Commission · Commission reuse policy
Ley 24/2003, de 10 de julio, de la Viña y del Vino, Article 13 (levels of the origin-based quality system) · Reino de España · Official act
Technical file: Costa de Cantabria (Ares(2014)2153066) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document

Still to check (3)

Boundary not captured yet (PGIs are not in the Eurac boundary data).
From the specification: Main varieties Albariño, Hondarrabi Zuri, Riesling, Godello, Gewürztraminer and Chardonnay; secondary Hondarrabi Beltza and Treixadura. Planting density 3,000–6,000 vines/ha. Must yield limited to 70 litres per 100 kg of grapes. Blending white and red wines is prohibited. Zone: Cantabria up to 600 m, excluding Liébana. The volatile acidity figure (0.8, labelled milliequivalents) is evidently in g/l.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.