Monterrei · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Monterrei in Spain

Latitude: 41.8°–42.1° N
Vineyard altitude: 379 m to 450 m
Production zone: 67,338 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 Monterrei must meet.

5 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Wine from grapes max. %	Actual alc. min. %	Acidity min. g/l
Monterrei white wine	–	13.2	98	74	11	4.5
Monterrei red wine	–	10	74	74	11	4
Monterrei rosé wine	85% red varieties	–	–	74	11	4
Monterrei Barrica, Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva white wines	–	13.2	98	74	11.5	4.5
Monterrei Barrica, Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva red wines	–	10	74	74	12	4

From the official production rules (EU single document, Official Journal). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Blend rules

Monterrei rosé wine

≥ 85% 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.

12 varieties ·

Albariño, Blanca de Monterrei, Caiño Blanco, Caíño Tinto, Doña Blanca, Godello, Loureira, Mencía, Merenzao, Sousón, Tempranillo, Treixadura

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

3,000

Vines per hectare, minimum

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 17.3 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,570 growing degree days (Winkler II).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 408 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 17.3 °C; Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 1,570; Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
Growing-season rain: 421 mm; Of 909 mm a year
Harvest rain: 171 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 385 m; Vineyard point 2, 399 m; Vineyard point 3, 399 m; Vineyard point 4, 477 m; Vineyard point 5, 380 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. MalepèreVery similarCompared with Monterrei: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. IanaVery similarCompared with Monterrei: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. ДрагоевоVery similarCompared with Monterrei: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Monterrei

17.3 °C

Malepère

17.3 °C

Iana

17.3 °C

Драгоево

17.3 °C

Growing degree days

Monterrei

1,570

Malepère

1,567

Iana

1,572

Драгоево

1,584

Growing-season rain

Monterrei

421 mm

Malepère

426 mm

Iana

410 mm

Драгоево

426 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, 171 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: Monterrei (Official Journal C, C/2025/6565, 8.12.2025; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2102115' 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: Planting density at most 5,000 vines/ha. The document gives no ageing periods for Barrica, Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva. Varieties include Godello, Treixadura, Doña Blanca, Mencía, Merenzao and Sousón. Continuous presses, high-speed centrifugal crushers and heating on the marc are prohibited. The older national technical file (2014) differs from the single document, whose values are kept: extraction at most 65 l of must per 100 kg (white) and 70 (red), a single yield of 12,000 kg/ha and 79.80 hl/ha, and 4.5 g/l minimum acidity for reds.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.