What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
The source gives no colour for 1 wine category here, so the colours below are incomplete.
Where it is
Pla i Llevant in Spain
- Latitude
- 39.3°–39.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 50 m to 215 m
- Production zone
- 190,582 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 Pla i Llevant must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
19 varieties · Pla i Llevant (liqueur wine), Pla i Llevant (semi-sparkling wine), Pla i Llevant (sparkling wine)
Cabernet Sauvignon, Callet, Chardonnay, Fogoneu, Giró Ros, Gorgollassa, Macabeo, Manto Negro, Merlot, Moll, Moscatel de Alejandria, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Mourvèdre, Parellada, Pinot Noir, Riesling, Syrah, Tempranillo, Viognier
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 21.3 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,419 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 101 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.3 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,419
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 225 mm
- Of 442 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 108 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 85 m; Vineyard point 2, 56 m; Vineyard point 3, 119 m; Vineyard point 4, 69 m; Vineyard point 5, 175 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. MenfiVery similarCompared with Pla i Llevant: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. MarsalaVery similarCompared with Pla i Llevant: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. S. Anna di Isola Capo RizzutoVery similarCompared with Pla i Llevant: same season warmth, wetter (+35 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, 108 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: Pla i Llevant (Official Journal C, C/2026/1686, 17.3.2026; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2084107' 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: Minimum total acidity is given as 3,5 (wines, sparkling) or 4,5 (liqueur, semi-sparkling) with the unit 'milliequivalents per litre', apparently a unit error, so it is not recorded. The white and rosé product covers both colours. Varieties include Callet, Manto Negro, Fogoneu, Gorgollassa, Giró Ros, Moll and Macabeo. Pre-heating grapes or heating musts on the marc to extract colour is prohibited. The older national technical file (2014) gives a minimum total acidity of 4.5 g/l tartaric for every wine type (recorded); the current single document's 3,5 figure for still and sparkling wines may reflect a later change.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.