What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Méntrida in Spain
- Latitude
- 39.8°–40.3° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 439 m to 594 m
- Production zone
- 320,799 ha
Contains 1 appellation (outlined on the zone map)
Dominio de Valdepusa
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 Méntrida must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
14 varieties · Méntrida red, white and rosé sparkling wines
Albillo Real, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Graciano, Grenache, Macabeo, Merlot, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Petit Verdot, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo, Verdejo
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.2 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,175 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 523 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.2 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,175
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 223 mm
- Of 466 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 91 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 533 m; Vineyard point 2, 441 m; Vineyard point 3, 527 m; Vineyard point 4, 547 m; Vineyard point 5, 565 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. ValdeorrasVery similarCompared with Méntrida: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Vermentino di SardegnaVery similarCompared with Méntrida: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. BullasVery similarCompared with Méntrida: 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, 91 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: Méntrida (Official Journal C 96, 15.3.2023; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2125734' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
- 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: Section 7 names only Garnacha Tinta as main variety, so it is given only for red and rosé wines; white varieties are not named. Press yield is 70 l/100 kg (74 l with mechanised harvesting). Yields depend on training and harvesting: gobelet 7,150 kg/ha and 50 hl/ha (53 mechanised), trellis 12,850 kg/ha and 90 hl/ha (95 mechanised); Vino de Pueblo wines are lower (gobelet 5,720 kg/ha, 40/42 hl/ha; trellis 10,280 kg/ha, 72/76 hl/ha). Barrel-aged whites need at least 2 months in barrel; wines to be aged use oak barrels of at most 330 litres; red wines macerate at least 48 hours. No ageing periods are given for Crianza, Reserva or Gran Reserva. The technical file (Spanish) adds no ageing periods; it sets pressing below 2.5 kg/cm2, white musts fermenting below 20 °C and wines for ageing fermenting at no more than 30 °C.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.