Vinous

PDO · Appellation profile

Πεζά

9,710 haProduction zone
3Wines in the rules
22.5 °CGrowing season · very hot
VWinkler region

What is made here

Wine colours

The only colour the rules allow.

100% White

Where it is

Πεζά in Greece

Latitude
35.1°–35.3° N
Production zone
9,710 ha

Lies within
Χάνδακας - Candia, Malvasia Χάνδακας-Candia

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 Πεζά must meet.

3 wines in the rules.
WineMain grape(s)Max yield
t/ha		Max wine
hl/ha		Grape ripeness
min. % pot. alc.		Wine
min. % alc.		Actual alc.
min. %		Acidity
min. g/l		Sugar
max. g/l		Ageing
min. months		In wood
min. months		In bottle
min. months
Πεζά Οίνος Λευκός Ξηρός Κοτσιφάλι, Μανδηλαριά10801111.511.53.54–––
Πεζά Οίνος Λευκός Ξηρός Επιλεγμένος / Réserve Κοτσιφάλι, Μανδηλαριά10801111.511.53.5424126
Πεζά Οίνος Λευκός Ξηρός Ειδικά Επιλεγμένος / Grande Réserve Κοτσιφάλι, Μανδηλαριά10801111.511.53.54481818

From the official production rules (national product specification, via the EU register). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Other varieties allowed

Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.

3 varieties ·

Kotsifali, Mandilaria, Vilana

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 22.5 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,668 growing degree days (Winkler V).

The average year  1991–2020, vineyards at about 287 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
10.3° 62 Jan 10.5° 57 Feb 12.4° 45 Mar 15.6° 28 Apr 20.2° 23 May 24.6° 8 Jun 26.7° 3 Jul 26.6° 4 Aug 23.7° 15 Sep 19.7° 32 Oct 15.4° 39 Nov 11.8° 61 Dec
Growing-season temperature
22.5 °C
Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days
2,668
Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
Growing-season rain
113 mm
Of 376 mm a year
Harvest rain
47 mm
September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 2 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 293 m; Vineyard point 2, 280 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. Valle de la OrotavaVery similarCompared with Πεζά: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Malvasia ΣητείαςVery similarCompared with Πεζά: same season warmth, drier (−64 mm).
3. ΣητείαVery similarCompared with Πεζά: same season warmth, drier (−64 mm).

Growing-season temperature

Πεζά
22.5 °C
Valle de la Orotava
22.5 °C
Malvasia Σητείας
22.4 °C
Σητεία
22.4 °C

Growing degree days

Πεζά
2,668
Valle de la Orotava
2,665
Malvasia Σητείας
2,650
Σητεία
2,650

Growing-season rain

Πεζά
113 mm
Valle de la Orotava
108 mm
Malvasia Σητείας
49 mm
Σητεία
49 mm

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, 47 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

  1. 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
  2. ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
  3. Product specification: Πεζά (ΠΕΖΑ ΠΡΟΔΙΑΓΡΑΦΗ ΤΕΛΙΚΟ.doc) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
  4. Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
  5. 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% Vilana (actual alcohol 11.0-12.5% vol); red from Kotsifali and Mandilaria co-vinified, no shares stated. For white wines the zone excludes land below 300 m. Short pruning to 1-2 buds, vines must be 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.