What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Montravel in France
- Latitude
- 44.8°–44.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 18 m to 136 m
- Delimited vineyard land
- 4,013 ha
Lies within
Bergerac, Côtes de Bergerac
Covers the same area as
Côtes de Montravel, Haut-Montravel
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.
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 Montravel must meet.
Blend rules
Montravel
- ≥ 50% Merlot · Main grape
- – cabernet franc / cabernet-sauvignon / cot · Allowed
; release from 15 April of the second year after the harvest.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
3 varieties · Montravel
1 varieties · Montravel
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
5,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
taille Guyot; cordon de Royat; taille à « cots »
Prohibited
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.8 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,674 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 76 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.8 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,674
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 469 mm
- Of 817 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 132 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 146 m; Vineyard point 2, 70 m; Vineyard point 3, 12 m; Vineyard point 4, 51 m; Vineyard point 5, 99 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. Minervois-la-LivinièreVery similarCompared with Montravel: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Pessac-LéognanVery similarCompared with Montravel: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. MehedinţiVery similarCompared with Montravel: 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, 132 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: Montravel (Cahier des charges de l'appellation d'origine contrôlée Montravel homologué par décret n°2014-1202 du 17/10/2014 publié au JORF du 19 octobre 2014, modifiant le) · 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: Varietal proportions apply to the holding's vineyard except the 50% principal-variety minimum for whites, which applies to the blend; whites blend at least two principal varieties, reds at least two varieties including merlot. Red wines are aged (élevage) until at least 31 March of the second year after the harvest, including at least 3 months in bottle, and must be bottled in the zone; max 0.4 g/l malic acid for reds. Heat treatment above 40°C, oak chips, added tannins, continuous presses and pump-fitted trailers are banned. The text sets a total alcohol limit after enrichment but no explicit enrichment rule.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.