What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Pago de Otazu in Spain
- Latitude
- 42.7°–42.8° N
- Production zone
- 6,657 ha
Lies within
Navarra
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 Pago de Otazu must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
4 varieties ·
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,400
Vines per hectare, minimum
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 16.5 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,391 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 388 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.5 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,391
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 460 mm
- Of 860 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 145 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 388 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. PanciuVery similarCompared with Pago de Otazu: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. CarnuntumVery similarCompared with Pago de Otazu: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. QuincyVery similarCompared with Pago de Otazu: 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, 145 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)
- Single document: Pago de Otazu (Official Journal C, C/2026/3580, 13.7.2026; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2102964' 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: Vino de Pago. White wines are made from the single white variety (Chardonnay) and red wines from the red varieties; the document describes young and barrel-fermented whites and young and barrel-aged reds but sets no minimum ageing periods. Minimum total acidity is not given (unit stated as milliequivalents per litre); maximum volatile acidity is 10.83 meq/l for young wines and 14.17 meq/l for aged wines.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.