What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Granada in Spain
- Latitude
- 36.7°–38.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 722 m to 1,283 m
- Production zone
- 1,254,809 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 Granada must meet.
Blend rules
Granada rosé wines
- ≥ 25% red varieties · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
10 varieties · Granada sparkling and quality sparkling wines (white and rosé)
Chardonnay, Moscatel de Alejandria, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Palomino, Pardina, Pedro Ximénez, Rome, Sauvignon Blanc, Torrontés, Vijariego Blanco
19 varieties · Granada white and rosé wines from overripe grapes
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Grenache, Merlot, Moscatel de Alejandria, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Mourvèdre, Palomino, Pardina, Pedro Ximénez, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Rome, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo, Torrontés, Vijariego Blanco
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
1,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
gobelet and variants; trellis
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.7 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,081 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 746 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.7 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,081
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 217 mm
- Of 470 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 81 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 1,254 m; Vineyard point 2, 509 m; Vineyard point 3, 1,133 m; Vineyard point 4, 113 m; Vineyard point 5, 722 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. Los CerrillosVery similarCompared with Granada: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. PalmelaVery similarCompared with Granada: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. La JarabaVery similarCompared with Granada: 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, 81 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
- Single document: Granada (Official Journal C, C/2025/954, 7.2.2025; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2132621' 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: Permitted varieties (19) include Tempranillo, Garnacha Tinta, Vijariego Blanco, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir; quality sparkling wines use a listed subset. The Contraviesa-Alpujarra sub-area has stricter rules: higher minimum alcohol (white 11 %, rosé 12 %, red 13 %), 4.5 g/l acidity (5.5 for sparkling), 65 l per 100 kg, lower yields (6,000–8,000 kg/ha), sparkling wine at least 70 % Vigiriego, and no oak chips, expedition liqueur, acidification or decolourisation. Overripe-grape wines have a 16 % maximum actual strength. Sparkling 'Premium' needs 12 and 'Reserva' 18 months on lees; 'Barrica'/'Roble' needs 3 months in oak. The older national technical file (2014) is stricter than the single document: minimum actual alcohol 11% (white, rosé) and 12% (red), acidity 4.5 g/l for still wines and 5.5 g/l for sparkling, extraction at most 65 l per 100 kg for red grapes, sparkling base wine at most 1 hl per 150 kg, and red grapes for oak-aged crianza wines at most 7,000 kg/ha; vine density must be 1,500–5,000 per ha.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.