What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Ραψάνη in Greece
- Latitude
- 39.8°–40.0° N
- Production zone
- 12,713 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 Ραψάνη must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
3 varieties · Ραψάνη (wine)
Krassato, Stavroto, Xinomavro
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.8 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,093 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 324 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.8 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,093
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 391 mm
- Of 893 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 171 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 324 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:No vineyards are mapped here yet, so this is the climate at one point in the middle of the zone, which may not be where the vines are. Monthly reanalysis in complex terrain (height corrections up to 0.6 °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. AjaccioVery similarCompared with Ραψάνη: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Les Baux de ProvenceVery similarCompared with Ραψάνη: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Val di Cornia RossoVery similarCompared with Ραψάνη: 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, 171 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: Ραψάνη (ΠΡΟΔΙΑΓΡΑΦΗ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΝΟΥ ΠΟΠ ΡΑΨΑΝΗ.docx) · 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: UNREADABLE: the Rapsani product specification text is mis-encoded (Greek letters shifted by a legacy font mapping), so quotes cannot be meaningfully copied; only the figures are legible (e.g. red dry wine minimum 11 % vol natural, total and actual alcohol). Needs a re-extraction with corrected character mapping.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.