What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Jumilla in Spain
- Latitude
- 38.3°–38.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 469 m to 803 m
- Production zone
- 247,145 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 Jumilla must meet.
Blend rules
Jumilla white wines (Jumilla Monastrell, Jumilla and Jumilla Dulce)
- ≥ 85% Airén / Macabeo / Pedro Ximénez / Malvasía / Chardonnay / Sauvignon Blanc / Moscatel de grano menudo / Verdejo / Merseguera / Viognier · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Jumilla rosé wines (Jumilla and Jumilla Monastrell)
- ≥ 50% Monastrell / Garnacha Tintorera / Cencibel / Cabernet Sauvignon / Garnacha / Merlot / Syrah / Petit Verdot · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Jumilla red wines (Jumilla Monastrell, Jumilla and Jumilla Dulce)
- ≥ 95% Monastrell / Garnacha Tintorera / Cencibel / Cabernet Sauvignon / Garnacha / Merlot / Syrah / Petit Verdot · 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.
8 varieties · Jumilla liqueur wines (Tinto Monastrell)
Cabernet Sauvignon, Garnacha Tintoréra, Grenache, Merlot, Mourvèdre, Petit Verdot, Syrah, Tempranillo
16 varieties ·
Airén, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Garnacha Tintoréra, Grenache, Macabeo, Malvasía Aromatica, Merlot, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Mourvèdre, Pedro Ximénez, Petit Verdot, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo, Verdejo
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
1,100
Vines per hectare, minimum
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.9 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,109 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 668 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.9 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,109
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 192 mm
- Of 350 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 73 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 678 m; Vineyard point 2, 572 m; Vineyard point 3, 496 m; Vineyard point 4, 826 m; Vineyard point 5, 769 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. YeclaVery similarCompared with Jumilla: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. La ManchaVery similarCompared with Jumilla: same season warmth, wetter (+21 mm).
3. La JarabaVery similarCompared with Jumilla: 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, 73 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: Jumilla (Official Journal C, C/2025/3208, 11.6.2025; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2036456' 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: Two cultivation methods: extensive (1 100–1 900 plants/ha; red 5 000 kg/ha and 37 hl/ha, white 5 625 kg/ha and 41.62 hl/ha) and intensive (1 500–3 350 plants/ha; 8 750 kg/ha and 64.75 hl/ha); the intensive limit is recorded as the overall maximum. Grape-share rules apply to the Jumilla and Jumilla Monastrell types; white wines may instead be blanc de noirs from authorised red varieties only. Liqueur wine acidity is given only as a unit (meq/l) with no value. Permitted varieties include Airén, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Garnacha Tinta, Garnacha Tintorera, Monastrell and Tempranillo – Cencibel. Wine must be bottled within the production area; 'Viña vieja' needs 85 % of grapes from vines at least 30 years old. The Spanish technical file (Ares(2014)2036456, an older version) sets minimum natural alcohol of 11 % vol (13 % vol for Monastrell for liqueur wine) but older limits that contradict the values kept here: 7 000 kg/ha and 49 hl/ha intensive, 4 000/4 500 kg/ha extensive, 70 litres per 100 kg, and different minimum actual alcohol per type (e.g. Monastrell red 12.5 % vol, liqueur wine maximum 22 % vol).
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.