What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Ribera del Guadiana in Spain
- Latitude
- 38.1°–39.7° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 206 m to 549 m
- Production zone
- 1,485,087 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 Ribera del Guadiana must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
30 varieties ·
Alarije, Beba, Bobal, Borba, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cayetana Blanca, Chardonnay, Doña Blanca, Garnacha Tintoréra, Graciano, Grenache, Jaén Tinto, Macabeo, Malvar, Mazuela, Merlot, Montúa, Moscatel de Alejandria, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Mourvèdre, Pardina, Parellada, Pedro Ximénez, Perruno, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo, Verdejo
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.7 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,292 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 450 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.7 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,292
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 206 mm
- Of 468 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 93 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 213 m; Vineyard point 2, 547 m; Vineyard point 3, 711 m; Vineyard point 4, 231 m; Vineyard point 5, 549 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. MálagaVery similarCompared with Ribera del Guadiana: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Sierras de MálagaVery similarCompared with Ribera del Guadiana: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. CagliariVery similarCompared with Ribera del Guadiana: 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, 93 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: Ribera del Guadiana (Official Journal C 215, 19.6.2023; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2153114' 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: Section 7 lists nine varieties without assigning them to colours; white-variety yields (12,000 kg, 84 hl/ha) and red-variety yields (10,000 kg, 70 hl/ha) are not tied to rosé or sparkling wines. Maximum total alcohol is 15 % for still wines; quality aromatic sparkling wine needs only 6.0 % actual alcohol; sparkling wines' 10 % maximum total strength appears to be an error. Tinto roble wines need 90 days' ageing (60 in oak up to 600 litres) and vino de guarda 365 days (60 in oak), counted from 1 October of the harvest year. The national technical file (2014) gives Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva whites and reds 12.5% vol minimum actual alcohol, but no ageing periods (general national rules apply). It differs from the single document on other wines: minimum actual alcohol 10% (white), 11% (rosé) and 12% (red), and it lists 70 hl/ha for white and 84 hl/ha for red varieties; its Tinto Roble barrels are at most 330 l.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.