What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Μοσχάτος Ρίου Πάτρας in Greece
- Latitude
- 38.1°–38.3° N
- Production zone
- 11,670 ha
Lies within
Μαυροδάφνη Πατρών
Worked out from the boundaries (smallest container first). They follow whole communes, so a neighbour sharing a commune can show up here too.
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 Ρίου Πάτρας 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
goblet; linear (cordon) forms
Prohibited
Irrigation
Not allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 21.3 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,417 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 100 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.3 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,417
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 311 mm
- Of 911 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 128 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 2 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 10 m; Vineyard point 2, 190 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. OstuniVery similarCompared with Μοσχάτος Ρίου Πάτρας: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Terra d'OtrantoVery similarCompared with Μοσχάτος Ρίου Πάτρας: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Negroamaro di Terra d'OtrantoVery similarCompared with Μοσχάτος Ρίου Πάτρας: 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, 128 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 Ρίου Πάτρας (ΜΟΣΧΑΤΟΣ ΡΙΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΩΝ ΠΡΟΔΙΑΓΡΑΦΗ ΠΡΟΪΟΝΤΟΣ τελικο.doc) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Vin doux naturel types are fortified during fermentation with grape spirit of at least 95 % vol (5-10 % of must volume); vin doux is fortified before fermentation and may be aged five years in oak. Vin naturellement doux uses sun- or shade-dried grapes with no additions; minimum natural strength 14.8 % before and 17.6 % after drying. Yields are also capped at 90 hl must/ha (42 hl/ha for Grand Cru); vines must be over three years old from grafting.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.