Δαφνές · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Δαφνές in Greece

Latitude: 35.0°–35.3° N
Vineyard altitude: 222 m to 648 m
Production zone: 24,708 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.

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 Δαφνές must meet.

5 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Grape ripeness min. % pot. alc.	Wine min. % alc.	Actual alc. min. %	Acidity min. g/l	Sugar max. g/l	Ageing min. months	In wood min. months	In bottle min. months
Δαφνές Οίνος Ερυθρός Ξηρός	100% Λιάτικο	10	47	15	17.5	10	4.5	4	–	–	–
Δαφνές Οίνος Ερυθρός Ξηρός Επιλεγμένος / Réserve	100% Λιάτικο	10	80	11	11	11	3.5	4	24	12	6
Δαφνές Οίνος Ερυθρός Ξηρός Ειδικά Επιλεγμένος / Grande Réserve	100% Λιάτικο	10	80	11	11	11	3.5	4	48	18	18
Δαφνές Οίνος Γλυκύς (Vin Doux)	100% Λιάτικο	10	95	13	17.5	15	4.5	–	–	–	–
Δαφνές Οίνος Γλυκύς Φυσικός (Vin Doux Naturel)	100% Λιάτικο	10	83	14	17.5	15	4.5	–	–	–	–

From the official production rules (national product specification, via the EU register). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Other varieties allowed

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

1 varieties ·

Liatiko

2 varieties · 5 wines

Liatiko, Mandilaria

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 22.0 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,565 growing degree days (Winkler V).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 351 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 22.0 °C; Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 2,565; Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
Growing-season rain: 115 mm; Of 406 mm a year
Harvest rain: 51 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 308 m; Vineyard point 2, 221 m; Vineyard point 3, 459 m; Vineyard point 4, 244 m; Vineyard point 5, 521 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 moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.

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. ΚουμανδαρίαVery similarCompared with Δαφνές: same season warmth, drier (−26 mm).

2. GozoVery similarCompared with Δαφνές: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. Κρασοχώρια ΛεμεσούVery similarCompared with Δαφνές: same season warmth, drier (−32 mm).

Growing-season temperature

Δαφνές

22.0 °C

Κουμανδαρία

22.0 °C

Gozo

22.1 °C

Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού

21.9 °C

Growing degree days

Δαφνές

2,565

Κουμανδαρία

2,562

Gozo

2,590

Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού

2,550

Growing-season rain

Δαφνές

115 mm

Κουμανδαρία

89 mm

Gozo

126 mm

Κρασοχώρια Λεμεσού

83 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, 51 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)
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
Product specification: Δαφνές (ΔΑΦΝΕΣ προδιαγραφή 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% Liatiko. Products: dry red (with Réserve/Grande Réserve ageing), liqueur wines Vin Doux (spirit added before fermentation) and Vin Doux Naturel (5-10% spirit added during fermentation), and naturally sweet Liastos from sun- or shade-dried grapes with no additions. Vin Doux and VDN actual alcohol 15-22% vol. The spec also mentions a 'Vin doux Naturel-Grand Cru' without separate limits.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.