What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Πάρος in Greece
- Latitude
- 36.9°–37.2° N
- Production zone
- 24,369 ha
Covers the same area as
Malvasia Πάρος
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.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Πάρος must meet.
Blend rules
Πάρος Οίνος Λευκός Ξηρός
- ≥ 35% Μανδηλαριά · Main grape
- – Μονεμβασιά · Allowed
Blend rules
Πάρος Οίνος Λευκός Ξηρός Επιλεγμένος / Réserve
- ≥ 35% Μανδηλαριά · Main grape
- – Μονεμβασιά · Allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Πάρος Οίνος Λευκός Ξηρός Ειδικά Επιλεγμένος / Grande Réserve
- ≥ 35% Μανδηλαριά · Main grape
- – Μονεμβασιά · Allowed
At least 48 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 ·
Mandilaria, Monemvassia
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
κυπελλοειδή (goblet); γραμμικά σχήματα (linear)
Prohibited
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 21.5 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,462 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 8 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.5 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,462
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 71 mm
- Of 384 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 37 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 8 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. ΡόδοςVery similarCompared with Πάρος: same season warmth, wetter (+35 mm).
2. ΑρχάνεςVery similarCompared with Πάρος: same season warmth, wetter (+78 mm).
3. MaltaVery similarCompared with Πάρος: same season warmth, wetter (+55 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, 37 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: Πάρος (ΠΑΡΟΣ ΠΡΟΔΙΑΓΡΑΦΗ 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: White 100% Monemvasia; red co-fermented from at least 35% Mandilaria grapes with the rest as Monemvasia must. Islands of Paros and Antiparos. Short pruning to 1-2 buds; traditional trailing 'aplotaries' still about 20% of vineyards. Vines over four years from grafting; white fermentation at or below 20 °C.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.