What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Palette in France
- Latitude
- 43.4°–43.6° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 173 m to 366 m
- Delimited vineyard land
- 1,858 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 Palette must meet.
Blend rules
Palette
- ≥ 55% araignan / bourboulenc / clairette / clairette rose · Main grape
- ≤ 20% terret gris · Allowed
- – colombaud / furmint / grenache blanc / muscat à petits grains / muscat d’Alexandrie / pascal / piquepoul blanc / ugni blanc · Allowed
; release from 15 April of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Palette rouge
- ≥ 50% cinsaut / grenache / mourvèdre · Main grape
- ≥ 10% Mourvèdre · Main grape
- – brun fourca / cabernet-sauvignon / carignan / castet / durif / muscat à petits grains / muscat de Hambourg / syrah / téoulier / terret gris / tibouren · Allowed
; release from 15 April of the second year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Palette rosé
- ≥ 50% cinsaut / grenache / mourvèdre · Main grape
- ≥ 10% Mourvèdre · Main grape
- – brun fourca / cabernet-sauvignon / carignan / castet / durif / muscat à petits grains / muscat de Hambourg / syrah / téoulier / terret gris / tibouren · Allowed
- ≤ 15% white-wine varieties · Others allowed
; release from 15 April of the 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.
11 varieties · 4 wines
Brun Fourca, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignan, Castets, Durif, Muscat de Hambourg, Muscat à Petits Grains Rouges, Syrah, Terret Gris, Tibouren, Téoulier
9 varieties · Palette
Colombaud, Furmint, Grenache Blanc, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Muscat d'Alexandrie, Pascal, Piquepoul Blanc, Terret Gris, Ugni Blanc
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
4,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
gobelet; cordon de Royat
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.6 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,837 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 275 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.6 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,837
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 379 mm
- Of 691 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 165 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 308 m; Vineyard point 2, 199 m; Vineyard point 3, 312 m; Vineyard point 4, 369 m; Vineyard point 5, 187 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. ПомориеVery similarCompared with Palette: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. ScavignaVery similarCompared with Palette: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ÎnsurăţeiVery similarCompared with Palette: 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, 165 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: Palette (Cahier des charges de l'AOC Palette, homologué par arrêté du 4 juillet 2024, publié au JORF du 7 juillet 2024 - BO n°28 du 11 juillet 2024) · 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 (4)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- Irrigation recorded as 'Allowed/Prohibited'.
- From the specification: The register's single name covers white, red and rosé; red and rosé rules are recorded as added products. Proportions apply to the holding's plantings and the blend follows the same proportions; for reds and rosés each principal variety is at most 80%. No post-enrichment alcohol cap is stated. Machine harvesting and chemical weeding are prohibited; irrigated parcels limited to 5,500 kg/ha.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.