What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Νάουσα in Greece
- Latitude
- 40.5°–40.7° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 156 m to 255 m
- Production zone
- 41,509 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 Νάουσα 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 · Νάουσα Οίνος Ερυθρός Ξηρός, Νάουσα Επιλεγμένος / Réserve, Νάουσα Ειδικά Επιλεγμένος / Grande Réserve
Xinomavro
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
κυπελλοειδή (goblet); γραμμικά σχήματα (linear/cordon); short pruning
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.3 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,202 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 211 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.3 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,202
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 403 mm
- Of 772 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 129 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 217 m; Vineyard point 2, 247 m; Vineyard point 3, 146 m; Vineyard point 4, 263 m; Vineyard point 5, 184 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 complex terrain (height corrections up to 2.7 °C); absolute values may be several degrees out, year-to-year changes are more reliable.
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. ParrinaVery similarCompared with Νάουσα: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Campi FlegreiVery similarCompared with Νάουσα: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. IschiaVery similarCompared with Νάουσα: 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, 129 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: Νάουσα (ΝΑΟΥΣΑ 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: Red wine from Xinomavro only, dry, semi-dry or semi-sweet; sweetening is allowed for the semi-dry and semi-sweet types. Fermentation below 30 °C. Réserve (Epilegmenos) and Grande Réserve (Eidika Epilegmenos) apply to any of the types; their ageing rules come from the specification's special practices. Optional terms: Neos/Nearos oinos, barrel-matured/aged per national rules.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.