What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Navarra in Spain
- Latitude
- 41.9°–42.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 273 m to 541 m
- Production zone
- 483,518 ha
Contains 3 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Pago de Arínzano, Pago de Otazu, Prado de Irache
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 Navarra must meet.
Blend rules
Navarra white wine
- 100% white varieties · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Navarra wood-aged white wine (fermented in barrel, Crianza, Reserva, Gran Reserva)
- 100% white varieties · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Navarra white wine made from Botrytis-infected grapes
- 100% white varieties · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Navarra rosé wine
- ≥ 85% red-skinned varieties · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Navarra wood-aged rosé wine (fermented in barrel, Reserva)
- ≥ 85% red-skinned varieties · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Navarra red wine
- 100% red varieties · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Navarra wood-aged red wine (Roble, Crianza, Reserva or Gran Reserva)
- 100% 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.
3 varieties · Navarra (liqueur wine)
Garnacha Blanca, Grenache, Moscatel de Grano Menudo
14 varieties ·
Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Garnacha Blanca, Graciano, Grenache, Macabeo, Malvasía Aromatica, Malvasía Volcánica, Merlot, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,400
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.2 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,552 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 403 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.2 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,552
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 349 mm
- Of 643 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 110 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 273 m; Vineyard point 2, 607 m; Vineyard point 3, 409 m; Vineyard point 4, 399 m; Vineyard point 5, 325 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. Trás-os-MontesVery similarCompared with Navarra: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. HuşiVery similarCompared with Navarra: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. IanaVery similarCompared with Navarra: same season warmth, wetter (+61 mm).
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, 110 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: Navarra (Official Journal C, C/2025/297, 10.1.2025; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2103191' 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: Total acidity is given only as a unit (meq/l) with no value, so it is left null. No minimum ageing periods are given for Roble, Crianza, Reserva or Gran Reserva. Rosé made by bleeding is limited to 32 hl/ha and 40 l of bled must per 100 kg; other rosé yields are not stated. Up to 15 % rosé may be blended into the following year's red. Liqueur wines are fortified with wine alcohol of at least 96 % vol. Continuous presses are prohibited. Varieties include Tempranillo, Garnacha Tinta, Graciano, Mazuelo, Viura, Chardonnay and Moscatel de Grano Menudo. The older Spanish technical file (Ares(2014)2103191) sets 32 hl/ha for rosé wine generally (recorded for both rosé products); its white and red yields are misprinted as 10000 and 8800 'hectolitros' per hectare and are not used.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.