Los Cerrillos · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow.

The source gives no colour for 1 wine category here, so the colours below are incomplete.

Where it is

Los Cerrillos in Spain

Latitude: 39.0°–39.2° N
Vineyard altitude: 659 m to 802 m
Production zone: 39,687 ha

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.

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 Los Cerrillos must meet.

8 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Actual alc. min. %	Acidity min. g/l	In wood min. months	In bottle min. months
Los Cerrillos (wine)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Los Cerrillos Tempranillo red wine	100% Tempranillo	12	89	12.5	4.8	–	–
Los Cerrillos Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon red wine	Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon	–	–	12.5	4.8	6	–
Los Cerrillos Syrah red wine	100% Syrah	13	96	12.5	4.8	6	–
Los Cerrillos Petit Verdot red wine (6 months)	100% Petit Verdot	12	82	12.5	4.8	6	–
Los Cerrillos Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon red wine (Private Collection)	Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon	–	–	13	4.8	13	–
Los Cerrillos Petit Verdot (12 months)	100% Petit Verdot	12	82	13	4.8	12	–
Los Cerrillos Cabernet Sauvignon red wine (Family)	100% Cabernet Sauvignon	9	67	13	4.8	24	18

From the official production rules (pliego de condiciones). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Other varieties allowed

Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.

6 varieties · Los Cerrillos (wine)

Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Syrah, Tempranillo

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 19.8 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,100 growing degree days (Winkler IV).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 759 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 19.8 °C; Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 2,100; Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
Growing-season rain: 224 mm; Of 453 mm a year
Harvest rain: 79 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 674 m; Vineyard point 2, 872 m; Vineyard point 3, 864 m; Vineyard point 4, 658 m; Vineyard point 5, 728 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. Vinos de MadridVery similarCompared with Los Cerrillos: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. YeclaVery similarCompared with Los Cerrillos: same season warmth, drier (−25 mm).

3. La JarabaVery similarCompared with Los Cerrillos: same season warmth, drier (−27 mm).

Growing-season temperature

Los Cerrillos

19.8 °C

Vinos de Madrid

19.8 °C

Yecla

19.8 °C

La Jaraba

19.8 °C

Growing degree days

Los Cerrillos

2,100

Vinos de Madrid

2,101

Yecla

2,108

La Jaraba

2,097

Growing-season rain

Los Cerrillos

224 mm

Vinos de Madrid

245 mm

Yecla

199 mm

La Jaraba

197 mm

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, 79 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
Product specification: Los Cerrillos
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: Each named wine has its own grape composition and oak ageing; the Tempranillo wine needs at least 30 days in oak. Yields are set per variety, so blends carry none: Tempranillo 12,000 kg/ha and 88.8 hl/ha, Cabernet Sauvignon 9,000 kg/ha and 66.6 hl/ha, Syrah 13,000 kg/ha and 96.2 hl/ha, Petit Verdot 12,000 kg/ha and 81.6 hl/ha; Chardonnay (9,000 kg/ha) and Merlot (8,500 kg/ha) also have yields though no wine uses them. Ageing uses 225-litre oak barrels at most 6 years old; wines must be bottled in the production area.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.