What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Αμύνταιο in Greece
- Latitude
- 40.5°–40.8° N
- Production zone
- 33,118 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 Αμύνταιο must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
1 varieties · Αμύνταιο Οίνος Ερυθρός Ξηρός, Αμύνταιο Οίνος Ερυθρός Ξηρός Επιλεγμένος / Réserve, Αμύνταιο Οίνος Ερυθρός Ξηρός Ειδικά Επιλεγμένος / Grande Réserve
Xinomavro
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
κυπελλοειδή (goblet); γραμμικά σχήματα (linear)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.9 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,909 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 559 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.9 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,909
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 371 mm
- Of 685 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 106 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 559 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. Corbières-BoutenacVery similarCompared with Αμύνταιο: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. ХасковоVery similarCompared with Αμύνταιο: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Coteaux d'Aix-en-ProvenceVery similarCompared with Αμύνταιο: 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, 106 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: Αμύνταιο (ΑΜΥΝΤΑΙΟ Προδιαγραφές τελικό.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: 100% Xinomavro. The 80 hl/ha limit is written as hl of must from red grapes (75 hl for white). Sparkling rosé may be made by bottle fermentation (classic method) or cuve close, so sparkling_method is left null; minimum 3.5 bar. Rosé fermented below 20 °C without continuous presses. Yield in hl is given as must (γλεύκος), not wine (80 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.