Moselle · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Moselle in France

Latitude: 48.7°–49.5° N
Vineyard altitude: 170 m to 287 m
Delimited vineyard land: 679 ha

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 Moselle must meet.

5 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Yield ceiling hl/ha	Grape sugar min. g/l	Grape ripeness min. % pot. alc.	After enrichment max. % alc.	Sugar max. g/l
Moselle	Pinot Noir	–	60	–	–	–	–	–
Moselle	Pinot Noir	–	66	–	–	–	–	–
Moselle	100% Pinot Noir	9.5	55	60	180	10.5	12.5	3
Moselle Pinot Gris	100% Pinot Grigio	10.5	68	73	170	10	12	8
Moselle Müller-Thurgau	100% Müller-Thurgau	10.5	68	73	153	9	11	8

From the official production rules (cahier des charges). 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.

1 varieties · Moselle

Gamay

3 varieties · Moselle

Gewürztraminer, Pinot Blanc, Riesling

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

5,000

Vines per hectare, minimum

Training

Systems allowed

cordon de Royat double; cordon de Royat unilatéral; taille Guyot simple; taille Guyot double

Prohibited

Irrigation

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 14.8 °C, cool on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,075 growing degree days (Winkler Ia).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 247 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 14.8 °C; Cool · 13–15 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 1,075; Region Ia: under 1,111 degree days
Growing-season rain: 486 mm; Of 870 mm a year
Harvest rain: 146 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 271 m; Vineyard point 2, 228 m; Vineyard point 3, 214 m; Vineyard point 4, 305 m; Vineyard point 5, 217 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. Hagelandse wijnVery similarCompared with Moselle: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. MoselVery similarCompared with Moselle: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. Achterhoek - WinterswijkVery similarCompared with Moselle: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Moselle

14.8 °C

Hagelandse wijn

14.8 °C

Mosel

14.9 °C

Achterhoek - Winterswijk

14.8 °C

Growing degree days

Moselle

1,075

Hagelandse wijn

1,054

Mosel

1,085

Achterhoek - Winterswijk

1,060

Growing-season rain

Moselle

486 mm

Hagelandse wijn

488 mm

Mosel

488 mm

Achterhoek - Winterswijk

510 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, 146 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: Moselle (Cahier des charges de l’appellation d'origine contrôlée Moselle - BO n°26 du 25 juin 2026) · 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)
Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method

Still to check (3)

Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
From the specification: White wines may be single-variety or blends; the 30–60% auxerrois and pinot gris shares apply to blends only, and the 70% principal-variety minimum (white and rosé) applies to the vineyard holding. White residual sugar may exceed total acidity by at most 2 g/l, capped at 8 g/l. Grapes are hand-picked; rosés are destemmed and macerated 24–48 hours; wood chips are banned.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.