Valdeorras · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Valdeorras in Spain

Latitude: 37.9°–38.9° N
Vineyard altitude: 81 m to 680 m
Production zone: 631,897 ha

Covers the same area as
Alicante

Contains 1 appellation (outlined on the zone map)
Yecla

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 Valdeorras must meet.

12 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Wine from grapes max. %	Actual alc. min. %	Acidity min. g/l
Valdeorras (quality sparkling wine)	85% Godello (white sparkling)	–	–	72	11	–
Valdeorras white wines	–	–	–	72	10.5	5
Valdeorras Godello	100% Godello	12.5	90	72	11.5	5
Valdeorras Variedades Nobles / Castes Nobres white wines	85% preferred white varieties	12.5	90	72	11.5	5
Valdeorras red wines	–	–	–	72	10.5	4
Valdeorras Mencía	85% Mencía	12.5	90	72	11.5	4
Valdeorras Variedades Nobles / Castes Nobres red wines	85% preferred red varieties	12.5	90	72	11.5	4
Valdeorras wine from raisined grapes – Tostado	authorised red varieties / Godello	–	–	40	11	–
Valdeorras rosé wines	–	–	–	72	10.5	4
Valdeorras Crianza	–	–	–	–	12.5	–
Valdeorras Reserva	–	–	–	–	12.5	–
Valdeorras Gran Reserva	–	–	–	–	12.5	–

From the official production rules (EU single document, Official Journal). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Blend rules

Valdeorras (quality sparkling wine)

≥ 85% Godello (white sparkling) · Main grape
– Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed

Blend rules

Valdeorras Variedades Nobles / Castes Nobres white wines

≥ 85% preferred white varieties · Main grape
– Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed

Blend rules

Valdeorras Mencía

≥ 85% Mencía · Main grape
– Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed

Blend rules

Valdeorras Variedades Nobles / Castes Nobres red wines

≥ 85% preferred red varieties · Main grape
– Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed

Other varieties allowed

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

18 varieties · Valdeorras (quality sparkling wine), Valdeorras wine from raisined grapes – Tostado

Albariño, Brancellao, Caíño Tinto, Doña Blanca, Espadeiro, Ferrón, Godello, Gran Negro, Juan García, Lado, Loureira, Mencía, Merenzao, Palomino, Sousón, Tempranillo, Torrontés, Treixadura

11 varieties ·

Brancellao, Caíño Tinto, Espadeiro, Ferrón, Godello, Gran Negro, Juan García, Mencía, Merenzao, Sousón, Tempranillo

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 20.2 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,190 growing degree days (Winkler IV).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 528 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 20.2 °C; Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 2,190; Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
Growing-season rain: 207 mm; Of 380 mm a year
Harvest rain: 89 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 824 m; Vineyard point 2, 76 m; Vineyard point 3, 486 m; Vineyard point 4, 700 m; Vineyard point 5, 552 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. MéntridaVery similarCompared with Valdeorras: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. BullasVery similarCompared with Valdeorras: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. ΣάμοςVery similarCompared with Valdeorras: same season warmth, drier (−31 mm).

Growing-season temperature

Valdeorras

20.2 °C

Méntrida

20.2 °C

Bullas

20.1 °C

Σάμος

20.3 °C

Growing degree days

Valdeorras

2,190

Méntrida

2,175

Bullas

2,154

Σάμος

2,208

Growing-season rain

Valdeorras

207 mm

Méntrida

223 mm

Bullas

219 mm

Σάμος

176 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, 89 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: Valdeorras (Official Journal C, C/2025/1383, 28.2.2025; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)4294127' 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: Yields: preferred varieties 12,500 kg/ha (90 hl/ha), other varieties 15,000 kg/ha (108 hl/ha); plain white, red and rosé wines are not given one figure. The 72 % extraction limit is worded for must. 'Producción controlada', Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva wines need 12.5 % actual alcohol; no ageing periods are given. Sparkling and Tostado acidity is stated only as a unit (milliequivalents per litre) without a value. Wines must be bottled in the demarcated area. Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva (white or red) follow the general national ageing rules, which the specification does not restate; ageing in barrel is counted from 1 December of the harvest year. The national technical file gives 'Tostado' raisining a minimum of 90 days, against 30 days recorded from the single document, and red acidity 4.5 g/l and a single yield of 12,000 kg/ha (86.40 hl/ha), against the single document's figures. Quality sparkling wine needs at least 85% Godello.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.