What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Getariako Txakolina in Spain
- Latitude
- 42.9°–43.4° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 25 m to 229 m
- Production zone
- 190,831 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 Getariako Txakolina must meet.
Blend rules
Getariako Txakolina rosado
- ≥ 50% HONDARRABI BELTZA · Main grape
- – HONDARRABI ZURI · Main grape
- – Chardonnay / Gros Manseng / Petit Courbu / Riesling (authorised varieties) · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
6 varieties ·
Chardonnay, Gros Manseng, Hondarrabi Beltza, Hondarrabi Zuri, Petit Courbu, Riesling
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 16.9 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,474 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 139 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.9 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,474
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 747 mm
- Of 1,411 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 222 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 93 m; Vineyard point 2, 148 m; Vineyard point 3, 222 m; Vineyard point 4, 189 m; Vineyard point 5, 41 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 complex terrain (height corrections up to 2.5 °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. Pouilly-LochéVery similarCompared with Getariako Txakolina: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Erbaluce di CalusoVery similarCompared with Getariako Txakolina: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Pouilly-VinzellesVery similarCompared with Getariako Txakolina: 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, 222 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: Getariako Txakolina (Ares(2014)2102130) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- 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); one set of analytical limits covers all types. The authorised (secondary) varieties may not exceed 20% of the vineyard area processed by each winery, and varietal wines need at least 85% of one recommended variety. 'Fermentado en Barrica' wines must ferment in barrel. No hl/ha yield is given; bottling must take place at registered wineries in the zone.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.