What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
El Terrerazo in Spain
- Latitude
- 39.5°–39.7° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 722 m to 832 m
- Production zone
- 23,690 ha
Lies within
Utiel-Requena, Valencia
Covers the same area as
Vera de Estenas
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.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled El Terrerazo must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
6 varieties · El Terrerazo Vino tinto, El Terrerazo Vino tinto monovarietal Bobal
Bobal, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, Merlot, Syrah, Tempranillo
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.5 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,815 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 773 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.5 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,815
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 251 mm
- Of 426 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 86 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 744 m; Vineyard point 2, 811 m; Vineyard point 3, 803 m; Vineyard point 4, 722 m; Vineyard point 5, 784 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. CariñenaVery similarCompared with El Terrerazo: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Torres VedrasVery similarCompared with El Terrerazo: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. CarcavelosVery similarCompared with El Terrerazo: same season warmth, similar rain.
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, 86 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
- Technical file: El Terrerazo (Ares(2014)2153821) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- 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: Source is the 2014 technical file (single document in Spanish) for this single-estate appellation (Vino de Pago) in Utiel. The minimum actual strength of 13% vol has a tolerance of ±0.25%; the area is defined by cadastral parcels at about 870 m altitude. The monovarietal Bobal product is added because the text gives it its own grape-to-wine yield; the share needed for a varietal label is not stated.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.