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Rosé des Riceys

4,314 haProduction zone
1Wine in the rules
15.3 °CGrowing season · intermediate
IbWinkler region

What is made here

Wine colours

The only colour the rules allow.

100% Rosé

Where it is

Rosé des Riceys in France

Latitude
48.0°–48.0° N
Vineyard altitude
216 m to 305 m
Production zone
4,314 ha

Lies within
Champagne, Coteaux champenois

Worked out from the boundaries (smallest container first). They follow whole communes, so a neighbour sharing a commune can show up here too.

Boundary drawn from whole communes, so it is a little larger than the legal zone. Boundary: Eurac Research PDO inventory (CC0). 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 Rosé des Riceys must meet.

1 wine in the rules.
WineMain grape(s)Max yield
t/ha		Grape sugar
min. g/l		Grape ripeness
min. % pot. alc.		After enrichment
max. % alc.		Sugar
max. g/l
Rosé des Riceys 100% Pinot Noir19.717010133

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.

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

Training
Systems allowed
cordon de Royat; taille Guyot simple; Guyot double; Guyot asymétrique
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 15.3 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,151 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).

The average year  1991–2020, vineyards at about 266 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
3.2° 84 Jan 3.6° 72 Feb 6.7° 71 Mar 9.9° 72 Apr 13.7° 82 May 17.2° 65 Jun 19.4° 65 Jul 19.4° 65 Aug 15.6° 69 Sep 11.7° 82 Oct 6.9° 86 Nov 3.9° 97 Dec
Growing-season temperature
15.3 °C
Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days
1,151
Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
Growing-season rain
499 mm
Of 909 mm a year
Harvest rain
150 mm
September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 242 m; Vineyard point 2, 289 m; Vineyard point 3, 218 m; Vineyard point 4, 270 m; Vineyard point 5, 311 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. ChablisVery similarCompared with Rosé des Riceys: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Petit ChablisVery similarCompared with Rosé des Riceys: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Coteaux champenoisVery similarCompared with Rosé des Riceys: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Rosé des Riceys
15.3 °C
Chablis
15.3 °C
Petit Chablis
15.3 °C
Coteaux champenois
15.2 °C

Growing degree days

Rosé des Riceys
1,151
Chablis
1,162
Petit Chablis
1,162
Coteaux champenois
1,143

Growing-season rain

Rosé des Riceys
499 mm
Chablis
476 mm
Petit Chablis
476 mm
Coteaux champenois
482 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, 150 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: Rosé des Riceys (Cahier des charges de l’appellation d'origine contrôlée Rosé des Riceys, homologué par l'arrêté du 31 juillet 2025 (AGRT2518399A) - BO n°32 du 7 août 2025) · Ministère de l'Agriculture (Bulletin officiel), as linked by INAO · Official act
  7. Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
  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: Yield is set in grapes, not wine: rendement 12,400 kg/ha and rendement butoir 15,500 kg/ha, with at most 102 litres of settled must per 160 kg of grapes; no hl/ha figure is given. Density is set by spacing (rows at most 2.00 m apart, row plus vine spacing at most 3.00 m) rather than a minimum vines per hectare; permitted pruning is cordon de Royat, Guyot simple/double and Guyot asymétrique (max 18 buds per m²). Hand harvest of whole bunches, whole-bunch semi-carbonic maceration, and ageing (élevage) until at least 1 July of the year after the harvest.
  • National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.