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Vino de Pago · Appellation profile

Urueña

4,410 haProduction zone
3Wines in the rules
17.3 °CGrowing season · warm
IIWinkler region

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Urueña in Spain

Latitude
41.7°–41.8° N
Vineyard altitude
709 m to 716 m
Production zone
4,410 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 Urueña must meet.

3 wines in the rules, all colours.
WineMain grape(s)Max yield
t/ha		Max wine
hl/ha		Wine from grapes
max. %		Actual alc.
min. %
Urueña (wine) –856––
Urueña rosé wine Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah +18567012.5
Urueña red wine Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah +18567013

From the official production rules (pliego de condiciones). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Other varieties allowed

Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.

4 varieties · Urueña (wine), Urueña red wine

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, Tempranillo

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
spur pruning
Permitted
Irrigation

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 17.3 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,583 growing degree days (Winkler II).

The average year  1991–2020, vineyards at about 713 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
4.4° 47 Jan 5.4° 34 Feb 8.5° 43 Mar 10.8° 55 Apr 14.8° 53 May 19.5° 32 Jun 22.5° 17 Jul 22.3° 16 Aug 18.3° 32 Sep 13.3° 66 Oct 7.9° 58 Nov 5.1° 53 Dec
Growing-season temperature
17.3 °C
Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days
1,583
Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
Growing-season rain
269 mm
Of 505 mm a year
Harvest rain
98 mm
September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 716 m; Vineyard point 2, 710 m; Vineyard point 3, 716 m; Vineyard point 4, 715 m; Vineyard point 5, 710 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. RuedaVery similarCompared with Urueña: same season warmth, drier (−32 mm).
2. CalatayudVery similarCompared with Urueña: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ArribesVery similarCompared with Urueña: same season warmth, wetter (+27 mm).

Growing-season temperature

Urueña
17.3 °C
Rueda
17.4 °C
Calatayud
17.5 °C
Arribes
17.5 °C

Growing degree days

Urueña
1,583
Rueda
1,596
Calatayud
1,620
Arribes
1,615

Growing-season rain

Urueña
269 mm
Rueda
237 mm
Calatayud
275 mm
Arribes
297 mm

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, 98 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

  1. 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
  2. ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
  3. OpenStreetMap vineyard areas (landuse=vineyard), from Geofabrik country extracts · OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
  4. Copernicus DEM GLO-90 (AWS open data tiles) · European Space Agency / Copernicus · Copernicus DEM licence
  5. Product specification: Urueña
  6. 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 only in milliequivalents per litre (60 meq/l for both wines), so it is left null. Red wines need pre-fermentation maceration below 10 °C for at least 24 hours; ageing is in French and American oak; only vertical or pneumatic hydraulic presses may be used. The area is a single 78-hectare estate in Urueña (Valladolid); wines may be labelled 'Vino de pago'.
  • National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.