What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Uclés in Spain
- Latitude
- 39.6°–40.3° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 691 m to 786 m
- Production zone
- 237,774 ha
Contains 1 appellation (outlined on the zone map)
Calzadilla
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 Uclés must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
5 varieties · Uclés (quality sparkling wine)
Chardonnay, Macabeo, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Sauvignon Blanc, Verdejo
10 varieties ·
Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Grenache, Macabeo, Merlot, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo, Verdejo
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.3 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,990 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 755 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.3 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,990
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 250 mm
- Of 504 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 93 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 713 m; Vineyard point 2, 812 m; Vineyard point 3, 773 m; Vineyard point 4, 698 m; Vineyard point 5, 778 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. Dehesa del CarrizalVery similarCompared with Uclés: same season warmth, wetter (+28 mm).
2. VallegarcíaVery similarCompared with Uclés: same season warmth, wetter (+28 mm).
3. Utiel-RequenaVery similarCompared with Uclés: 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: Uclés (Official Journal C, C/2026/897, 09.02.2026; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2125724' 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: Section 8 lists 20 varieties, including Tempranillo – Cencibel, Garnacha Tinta, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Airén, Macabeo – Viura and Verdejo. Yields depend on vine age and training (red vines over 40 years: 5,000 kg/ha and 35 hl/ha gobelet, 8,000 kg/ha and 56 hl/ha trellised; 15–40 years: 6,500/45.5 and 9,500/66.5; 6–15 years: 8,000/56 and 11,000/77; white varieties 8,000/56 gobelet and 11,000/77 trellised); red vines under six years old cannot be used. Minimum acidity for barrel-fermented/aged whites and sparkling wine (4,5) is given in milliequivalents per litre, so it is left null. Oak-aged young reds need at least two months in oak barrels of at most 600 litres; no ageing periods are given for Crianza or Reserva. The technical file (Spanish) adds no ageing periods; Crianza and Reserva reds macerate on skins for at least 7 days.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.