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
Vallegarcía in Spain
- Latitude
- 39.3°–39.6° N
- Production zone
- 65,403 ha
Covers the same area as
Dehesa del Carrizal
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 Vallegarcía must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
6 varieties · Vallegarcía (wine)
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Syrah, Viognier
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.3 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,985 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 823 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.3 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,985
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 278 mm
- Of 551 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 105 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 823 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. DoTejoVery similarCompared with Vallegarcía: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. UclésVery similarCompared with Vallegarcía: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Utiel-RequenaVery similarCompared with Vallegarcía: 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, 105 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)
- Product specification: Vallegarcía
- 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 7 lists one white variety (Viognier) and eight red ones; the colour assignment of varieties is inferred from their names. Red-wine yields are set per variety: Cabernet Franc, Garnacha Tinta, Mazuela/Cariñena and Monastrell 11,500 kg/ha and 75 hl/ha; Syrah 9,250 kg/ha and 60 hl/ha; Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon 8,500 kg/ha and 55 hl/ha; Petit Verdot 14,600 kg/ha and 95 hl/ha. Grapes must be hand-harvested; wines are aged in French oak and in bottle for unstated periods, and must be bottled in the production area (a single cadastral parcel of 1,521 ha).
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.