What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Μοσχάτος Κεφαλληνίας in Greece
- Latitude
- 38.1°–38.4° N
- Production zone
- 15,132 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 Μοσχάτος Κεφαλληνίας 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 · 4 wines
Moschato Aspro
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
κυπελλοειδή (goblet); γραμμικά σχήματα (linear)
Prohibited
Irrigation
Not allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.3 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,197 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 202 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.3 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,197
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 247 mm
- Of 847 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 163 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 202 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. Cannonau di SardegnaVery similarCompared with Μοσχάτος Κεφαλληνίας: same season warmth, wetter (+33 mm).
2. Vermentino di GalluraVery similarCompared with Μοσχάτος Κεφαλληνίας: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Moscato di SardegnaVery similarCompared with Μοσχάτος 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, 163 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: Μοσχάτος Κεφαλληνίας (ΜΟΣΧΑΤΟΣ ΚΕΦΑΛΛΗΝΙΑΣ ΠΡΟΔΙΑΓΡ (2) teliko.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% white Muscat (Moschato Aspro). Grape yield written as 'δέκα χιλιάδες (12000)' in places (ten thousand in words, 12000 in figures); 12,000 kg/ha recorded, 5,300 kg/ha for VDN Grand Cru (no separate hl/ha figure for Grand Cru). Naturally sweet wine from sun- or shade-dried grapes (natural alcohol 14.8% vol before drying, 17.6% after). Vin Doux may age five years in oak (optional). Vines over three years from grafting.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.