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Where it is
Vin de Savoie in France
- Latitude
- 45.4°–46.4° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 273 m to 543 m
- Delimited vineyard land
- 6,988 ha
Contains 1 appellation (outlined on the zone map)
Roussette de Savoie
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 Vin de Savoie must meet.
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie
- – aligoté / altesse / chardonnay / gamay / jacquère / mondeuse / mondeuse / pinot / velteliner rouge précoce / chasselas · Main grape
- ≤ 10% bia / corbeau / dousset / hibou noir / mondeuse grise / petite sainte-Marie / pinot gris · Allowed
; release from after at least 9 months on lees following tirage.
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Abymes
- ≥ 80% Jacquère · Main grape
- – aligoté / altesse / chardonnay / mondeuse / velteliner rouge précoce · Allowed
- ≤ 10% bia / mondeuse grise / petite sainte-Marie / pinot gris · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Apremont
- ≥ 80% Jacquère · Main grape
- – aligoté / altesse / chardonnay / mondeuse / velteliner rouge précoce · Allowed
- ≤ 10% bia / mondeuse grise / petite sainte-Marie / pinot gris · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Ayze
- ≥ 70% Gringet · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Altesse · Allowed
- – Roussette d'Ayze · Allowed
; release from after at least 9 months on lees following tirage.
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Chautagne
- ≥ 90% gamay / mondeuse / pinot · Main grape
- – cabernet franc / cabernet sauvignon / persan · Allowed
- ≤ 10% corbeau / dousset / hibou noir · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Chignin
- ≥ 90% gamay / mondeuse / pinot · Main grape
- – cabernet franc / cabernet sauvignon / persan · Allowed
- ≤ 10% corbeau / dousset / hibou noir · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Crépy
- ≥ 80% Chasselas · Main grape
- – aligoté / altesse / chardonnay / gringet / mondeuse / roussette d’Ayze / velteliner rouge précoce · Allowed
- ≤ 10% bia / mondeuse grise / petite sainte-Marie / pinot gris · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Cruet
- ≥ 80% Jacquère · Main grape
- – aligoté / altesse / chardonnay / mondeuse / velteliner rouge précoce · Allowed
- ≤ 10% bia / mondeuse grise / petite sainte-Marie / pinot gris · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Jongieux
- ≥ 90% gamay / mondeuse / pinot · Main grape
- – cabernet franc / cabernet sauvignon / persan · Allowed
- ≤ 10% corbeau / dousset / hibou noir · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Marignan
- ≥ 80% Chasselas · Main grape
- – aligoté / altesse / chardonnay / gringet / mondeuse / roussette d’Ayze / velteliner rouge précoce · Allowed
- ≤ 10% bia / mondeuse grise / petite sainte-Marie / pinot gris · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Marin
- ≥ 80% Chasselas · Main grape
- – aligoté / altesse / chardonnay / gringet / mondeuse / roussette d’Ayze / velteliner rouge précoce · Allowed
- ≤ 10% bia / mondeuse grise / petite sainte-Marie / pinot gris · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Montmélian
- ≥ 80% Jacquère · Main grape
- – aligoté / altesse / chardonnay / mondeuse / velteliner rouge précoce · Allowed
- ≤ 10% bia / mondeuse grise / petite sainte-Marie / pinot gris · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Ripaille
- ≥ 80% Chasselas · Main grape
- – aligoté / altesse / chardonnay / gringet / mondeuse / roussette d’Ayze / velteliner rouge précoce · Allowed
- ≤ 10% bia / mondeuse grise / petite sainte-Marie / pinot gris · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Savoie Saint-Jeoire-Prieuré
- ≥ 80% Jacquère · Main grape
- – aligoté / altesse / chardonnay / mondeuse / velteliner rouge précoce · Allowed
- ≤ 10% bia / mondeuse grise / petite sainte-Marie / pinot gris · Allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
2 varieties · Vin de Savoie Ayze (white), Vin de Savoie Ayze, Vin de Savoie Ayze
3 varieties · Vin de Savoie Chignin, Vin de Savoie Jongieux
7 varieties · Vin de Savoie Abymes
Aligoté, Altesse, Chardonnay, Marsanne, Mondeuse Blanche, Velteliner Rouge Précoce, Verdesse
5 varieties · 7 wines
Aligoté, Altesse, Chardonnay, Mondeuse Blanche, Velteliner Rouge Précoce
7 varieties · 4 wines
Aligoté, Altesse, Chardonnay, Gringet, Mondeuse Blanche, Roussette d'Ayze, Velteliner Rouge Précoce
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
5,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
gobelet; éventail; cordon de Royat; taille Guyot simple; taille Guyot double
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 16.1 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,314 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 390 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.1 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,314
- Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 930 mm
- Of 1,578 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 239 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 368 m; Vineyard point 2, 394 m; Vineyard point 3, 468 m; Vineyard point 4, 388 m; Vineyard point 5, 332 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.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in complex terrain (height corrections up to 3.9 °C); absolute values may be several degrees out, year-to-year changes are more reliable.
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. CanaveseVery similarCompared with Vin de Savoie: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Valtellina SuperioreVery similarCompared with Vin de Savoie: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Valtellina rossoVery similarCompared with Vin de Savoie: −0.3 °C in the growing season, 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, 239 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: Vin de Savoie (Cahier des charges de l'appellation d'origine protégée Vin de Savoie ou Savoie homologué par l'arrêté du 14 juin 2023 publié au JORF du 22 juin 2023 - AGRT23051) · 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: Minimum grape sugar and natural alcohol depend on the grape variety (e.g. reds 162 g/l for gamay/pinot vs 153 for others; whites 162 chardonnay, 136 jacquère, 144 others; varietal labels change the alcohol limits), so sugar is recorded only where one figure applies; the general colour-level alcohol figures are recorded. Grape minimums (90% gamay/mondeuse/pinot, 80% jacquère or chasselas, 50% gringet) apply to the vineyard holding; caps on bia, corbeau, dousset, hibou noir, mondeuse grise, petite sainte-Marie and pinot gris (10%) apply to the blend. The cahier also governs 'Crémant' sparkling wine (Crémant de Savoie: 12 months from tirage, 16,000/14,500 kg/ha, cuvée at least 40% jacquère and 60% jacquère+altesse), which is not among this register entry's names. Ayze vineyards need 6000 vines/ha. Irrigation is not mentioned.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.