What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Manchuela in Spain
- Latitude
- 39.0°–40.0° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 650 m to 851 m
- Production zone
- 535,332 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 Manchuela must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
26 varieties · Manchuela white and rosé quality sparkling wines
Albillo Real, Bobal, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Garnacha Tintoréra, Graciano, Grenache, Macabeo, Malbec, Mazuela, Merlot, Moravia Agria, Moravia Dulce, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Mourvèdre, Pardillo, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Rojal Tinta, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo, Tinto Velasco, Verdejo, Viognier
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.7 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,862 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 818 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.7 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,862
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 242 mm
- Of 435 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 85 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 725 m; Vineyard point 2, 959 m; Vineyard point 3, 811 m; Vineyard point 4, 845 m; Vineyard point 5, 749 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. ArrudaVery similarCompared with Manchuela: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. CarcavelosVery similarCompared with Manchuela: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. AlenquerVery similarCompared with Manchuela: 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, 85 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: Manchuela (Official Journal C, C/2026/3565, 3.7.2026; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2126085' 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: Section 8 lists 31 varieties, including Bobal, Tempranillo – Cencibel, Garnacha Tinta, Monastrell, Macabeo – Viura, Moravia Agria, Moravia Dulce and Albillo Real. Yields depend on grape colour and training: gobelet white 7,860 kg/ha and 55 hl/ha, gobelet red 6,430 kg/ha and 45 hl/ha, trellised white 11,430 kg/ha and 80 hl/ha, trellised red 10,000 kg/ha and 70 hl/ha. Sweet red wines' minimum acidity (4,5) has no unit in the document, so it is left null. Aged or matured rosés need at least 85 % red varieties; 'Roble' and wood-aged whites and rosés need at least two months in wood. Ice wine (grapes frozen on the vine at −5 °C or below) is described in 5.1 but has no limits of its own; no ageing periods are given for Crianza, Reserva or Gran Reserva. The technical file (Spanish) adds no ageing periods or further limits; it describes fermentation below 18 °C for whites and rosés and at least 48 hours of skin maceration below 28 °C for young reds.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.