What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Ρόδος in Greece
- Latitude
- 36.1°–36.4° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 118 m to 563 m
- Production zone
- 44,909 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 Ρόδος must meet.
Blend rules
Ρόδος Λευκός Ξηρός Οίνος
- ≥ 70% Μανδηλαριά · Main grape
- – Μαυροθήρικο · Allowed
At least 12 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Ρόδος Λευκός Ξηρός Επιλεγμένος / Réserve
- ≥ 70% Μανδηλαριά · Main grape
- – Μαυροθήρικο · Allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Ρόδος Λευκός Ξηρός Ειδικά Επιλεγμένος / Grande Réserve
- ≥ 70% Μανδηλαριά · Main grape
- – Μαυροθήρικο · 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.
5 varieties ·
Assyrtiko, Athiri, Malagousia, Mandilaria, Mavrothiriko
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
κυπελλοειδή (goblet); γραμμοειδή σχήματα (linear/cordon)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 21.4 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,449 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 278 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.4 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,449
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 105 mm
- Of 573 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 57 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 497 m; Vineyard point 2, 119 m; Vineyard point 3, 449 m; Vineyard point 4, 135 m; Vineyard point 5, 188 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. Malvasia ΠάροςVery similarCompared with Ρόδος: same season warmth, drier (−35 mm).
2. ΠάροςVery similarCompared with Ρόδος: same season warmth, drier (−35 mm).
3. ΑρχάνεςVery similarCompared with Ρόδος: same season warmth, wetter (+43 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, 57 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: Ρόδος (ΡΟΔΟΣ 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: White from at least 70 % Athiri (rest Malagousia and Assyrtiko); red and rosé from at least 70 % Mandilaria (rest Mavrothiriko); the specification gives no varieties for the sparkling wines. The red/rosé grape yield is written 'δέκα χιλιάδες (11000)' (ten thousand) – the figure 11,000 kg/ha is recorded. Athiri may come only from part of the zone (Kameiros/Attavyros communities). Sparkling wines: second fermentation in bottle or closed tank (method not fixed), at least 3.5 bar, total acidity 3.5–7.5 g/l, sugar by the usual brut nature…doux scale. Sweetening allowed for semi-dry and semi-sweet types; continuous presses prohibited for white wine; vines must be over four years old from grafting.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.