What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Μαντινεία in Greece
- Latitude
- 37.4°–37.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 694 m to 727 m
- Production zone
- 61,191 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 Μαντινεία must meet.
Blend rules
Mantinia Dry White Wine
- ≥ 85% Moschofilero · Main grape
- – Asproudes · Allowed
Blend rules
Mantinia Dry White Wine Réserve
- ≥ 85% Moschofilero · Main grape
- – Asproudes · Allowed
At least 12 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Mantinia Dry White Wine Grande Réserve
- ≥ 85% Moschofilero · Main grape
- – Asproudes · 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 · Mantinia Quality Sparkling White
Asproudes, Moschofilero
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
goblet; linear configurations (short pruning, 1-2 buds)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.1 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,956 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 712 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.1 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,956
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 232 mm
- Of 630 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 85 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 706 m; Vineyard point 2, 694 m; Vineyard point 3, 727 m; Vineyard point 4, 716 m; Vineyard point 5, 717 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. AlmansaVery similarCompared with Μαντινεία: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. BucelasVery similarCompared with Μαντινεία: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Ρομπόλα ΚεφαλληνίαςVery similarCompared with Μαντινεία: same season warmth, wetter (+32 mm).
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, 85 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
- Single document: Μαντινεία (Official Journal C 302, 28.8.2018; and the product specification 'ΜΑΝΤΙΝΕΙΑ προδιαγραφή τελικό.doc' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: The sparkling wine may be made by the traditional (bottle) or closed-tank method, at least 3.5 bar, in all sweetness styles from brut nature to doux. Vines are short-pruned (1-2 buds) in goblet or linear form; fermentation of the dry wine does not exceed 20 °C. The 85 % Moschofilero rule is stated for the dry white wine only. The older national product specification limits wine yield to 66 hl/ha for both the dry white and the sparkling wine; the single-document 82.5 hl/ha is kept.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.