Vinous

AOC · Appellation profile

Quincy

4,801 haProduction zone
1Wine in the rules
16.4 °CGrowing season · intermediate
IbWinkler region

What is made here

Wine colours

The only colour the rules allow.

100% White

Where it is

Quincy in France

Latitude
47.1°–47.2° N
Vineyard altitude
109 m to 129 m
Delimited vineyard land
814 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.

01 · What the law says

The rules

Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Quincy must meet.

1 wine in the rules.
WineMain 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
Quincy Sauvignon Blanc10.5657517010.5134

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.

Blend rules

Quincy

  • – Sauvignon Blanc · Main grape
  • ≤ 10% Sauvignon Gris · Allowed

Other varieties allowed

Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.

1 varieties · Quincy

Sauvignon Gris

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

5,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
taille Guyot simple; taille Guyot double; cordon de Royat
Prohibited
Irrigation

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 16.4 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,383 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).

The average year  1991–2020, vineyards at about 122 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
4.6° 70 Jan 5.0° 60 Feb 8.0° 62 Mar 10.9° 67 Apr 14.7° 75 May 18.3° 58 Jun 20.5° 56 Jul 20.6° 52 Aug 17.0° 58 Sep 13.0° 77 Oct 8.1° 75 Nov 5.3° 80 Dec
Growing-season temperature
16.4 °C
Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days
1,383
Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
Growing-season rain
444 mm
Of 792 mm a year
Harvest rain
135 mm
September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 123 m; Vineyard point 2, 122 m; Vineyard point 3, 129 m; Vineyard point 4, 109 m; Vineyard point 5, 126 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. CarnuntumVery similarCompared with Quincy: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Pago de OtazuVery similarCompared with Quincy: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ValençayVery similarCompared with Quincy: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Quincy
16.4 °C
Carnuntum
16.4 °C
Pago de Otazu
16.5 °C
Valençay
16.3 °C

Growing degree days

Quincy
1,383
Carnuntum
1,379
Pago de Otazu
1,391
Valençay
1,362

Growing-season rain

Quincy
444 mm
Carnuntum
455 mm
Pago de Otazu
460 mm
Valençay
435 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, 135 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

  1. 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
  2. Quality wines in Italy and France: a dataset of PDO specifications · figshare 25393261 · CC BY 4.0
  3. ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
  4. OpenStreetMap vineyard areas (landuse=vineyard), from Geofabrik country extracts · OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
  5. Copernicus DEM GLO-90 (AWS open data tiles) · European Space Agency / Copernicus · Copernicus DEM licence
  6. Cahier des charges: Quincy (Cahier des charges modifié de l'AOP Quincy homologué par arrêté du 1er février 2022 publié au JORF du 5 février 2022 - BO n°7 du 10 février 2022) · Ministère de l'Agriculture (Bulletin officiel), as linked by INAO · Official act
  7. 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)
  8. Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
  • Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
  • From the specification: Sauvignon gris is limited to 10% of the holding's vineyard. Guyot simple allows 10 buds per vine, Guyot double 12 and cordon de Royat 14; trellising is compulsory. Wood chips are prohibited.
  • National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.