What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Μαυροδάφνη Κεφαλληνίας in Greece
- Latitude
- 38.1°–38.7° N
- Production zone
- 20,959 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 Μαυροδάφνη Κεφαλληνίας must meet.
Blend rules
Μαυροδάφνη Κεφαλληνίας Οίνος Ερυθρός Λικέρ
- ≥ 50% Mavrodaphne · Main grape
- – Mavri Korinthiaki · 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 · Μαυροδάφνη Κεφαλληνίας Οίνος Ερυθρός Λικέρ
Korinthiaki, Mavrodafni
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
goblet; linear (cordon) forms
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.9 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,904 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 479 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.9 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,904
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 252 mm
- Of 878 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 167 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 479 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. AylésVery similarCompared with Μαυροδάφνη Κεφαλληνίας: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Finca ÉlezVery similarCompared with Μαυροδάφνη Κεφαλληνίας: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. GuijosoVery similarCompared with Μαυροδάφνη Κεφαλληνίας: 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, 167 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: Μαυροδάφνη Κεφαλληνίας (ΜΑΥΡΟΔΑΦΝΗ ΚΕΦΑΛ.προδιαγραφή τελ..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: Liqueur wine made by adding grape spirit of at least 95 % vol during fermentation (5-10 % of the must volume). Mavrodaphne must exceed 50 % when co-fermented with Mavri Korinthiaki. Yield also capped at 90 hl of must per hectare; short pruning up to 2 buds. Grapes may be vinified in any qualifying winery on the island of Kefalonia, and the zone also includes Ithaca.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.