What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Αγχίαλος in Greece
- Latitude
- 39.2°–39.3° N
- Production zone
- 10,750 ha
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 Αγχίαλος must meet.
Blend rules
Αγχίαλος Λευκός Ξηρός Οίνος
- ≥ 75% Ροδίτης · Main grape
- – Σαββατιανό · Allowed
Blend rules
Αγχίαλος Λευκός Ξηρός Οίνος Επιλεγμένος / Réserve
- ≥ 75% Ροδίτης · Main grape
- – Σαββατιανό · Allowed
At least 12 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Αγχίαλος Λευκός Ξηρός Οίνος Ειδικά Επιλεγμένος / Grande Réserve
- ≥ 75% Ροδίτης · Main grape
- – Σαββατιανό · Allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
2 varieties ·
Roditis, Savatiano
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
κυπελλοειδή (goblet); γραμμοειδή (linear)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 21.8 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,522 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 45 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.8 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,522
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 321 mm
- Of 756 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 139 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 45 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:No vineyards are mapped here yet, so this is the climate at one point in the middle of the zone, which may not be where the vines are. Monthly reanalysis in complex terrain (height corrections up to 0.3 °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. SquinzanoVery similarCompared with Αγχίαλος: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. LeveranoVery similarCompared with Αγχίαλος: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Salice SalentinoVery similarCompared with Αγχίαλος: 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, 139 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
- ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
- Product specification: Αγχίαλος (Τροποποιημένη Προδιαγραφή ΠΟΠ Αγχίαλος.doc) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- 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 only: Roditis at least 75%, the rest Savatiano. The 90 hl/ha limit is written as hl of must. Réserve and Grande Réserve ageing is stated for Anchialos wines in general; recorded here on the dry white. Sweetening is allowed for semi-dry and semi-sweet wines; vines must be over four years from grafting; fermentation below 20 °C. Yield in hl is given as must (γλεύκος), not wine (90 hl/ha of must), so it is not recorded as a wine yield.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.