What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Corbières-Boutenac in France
- Latitude
- 43.1°–43.2° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 53 m to 170 m
- Delimited vineyard land
- 2,624 ha
Lies within
Corbières, Languedoc
Worked out from the boundaries (smallest container first). Uses the delimited parcels where INAO publishes them.
The delimited vineyard parcels themselves, so the shape is patchy: only land within them may grow the wine. Boundary: INAO parcel delimitation (Licence Ouverte); nearby parcels drawn as one block, with less detail for larger appellations. Country outlines: Natural Earth. Dots on the zone map are the vineyard points used for climate.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Corbières-Boutenac must meet.
Blend rules
Corbières-Boutenac
- – carignan / grenache / mourvèdre / syrah · Main grape
- ≥ 70% carignan / grenache / mourvèdre · Main grape
- ≥ 30% Carignan · Main grape
- ≤ 80% any single variety · Allowed
; release from 1 January of the second year after the harvest.
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
4,400
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
gobelet; cordon de Royat; taille Guyot simple (syrah only)
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.8 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,886 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 102 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.8 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,886
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 367 mm
- Of 665 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 151 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 94 m; Vineyard point 2, 102 m; Vineyard point 3, 45 m; Vineyard point 4, 191 m; Vineyard point 5, 77 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. ХасковоVery similarCompared with Corbières-Boutenac: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Coteaux d'Aix-en-ProvenceVery similarCompared with Corbières-Boutenac: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Beira InteriorVery similarCompared with Corbières-Boutenac: 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, 151 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
- Quality wines in Italy and France: a dataset of PDO specifications · figshare 25393261 · CC BY 4.0
- 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
- Cahier des charges: Corbières-Boutenac (Cahier des charges de l’appellation d’origine protégée Boutenac homologué par arrêté du 2 septembre 2022 publié au JORF du 9 septembre 2022 (AGRT2221949A) - BO ) · Ministère de l'Agriculture (Bulletin officiel), as linked by INAO · Official act
- Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles de l'INAO · Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO), via data.gouv.fr · Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab)
- 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: The cahier now names the appellation 'Boutenac'. Carignan must be at least 30% and carignan+grenache+mourvèdre at least 70% both in the vineyard holding and in the blend; no single variety may exceed 80% of the blend. Élevage until at least 31 December of the year after the harvest, including at least 2 months in bottle; carignan is hand-picked; irrigated parcels are limited to 5500 kg/ha; wines above 14% natural alcohol may have 4 g/l sugar; wood chips banned.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.