What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Ρομπόλα Κεφαλληνίας in Greece
- Latitude
- 38.1°–38.3° N
- Production zone
- 15,521 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 Ρομπόλα Κεφαλληνίας must meet.
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
50 m
Lowest vineyard allowed
Training
Systems allowed
gobelet; single cordon
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.1 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,940 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 470 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.1 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,940
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 264 mm
- Of 920 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 176 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 470 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 0.5 °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. BucelasVery similarCompared with Ρομπόλα Κεφαλληνίας: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. MondéjarVery similarCompared with Ρομπόλα Κεφαλληνίας: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ΜαντινείαVery similarCompared with Ρομπόλα Κεφαλληνίας: same season warmth, drier (−32 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, 176 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)
- Single document: Ρομπόλα Κεφαλληνίας (Official Journal C 135, 18.4.2023; and the product specification 'ΡΟΜΠΟΛΑ ΚΕΦΑΛΛΗΝΙΑΣ.ΠΡΟΔΙΓΡΑΦΗ ΤΕΛΙΚΟ doc.doc' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Natural alcoholic strength must lie between 11.0 and 13.6 % vol; maximum actual strength is printed as '13 5,% vol.'. Vines are pruned to up to six two-bud spurs and are productive only from more than 4 years after grafting; no continuous presses; fermentation below 20 °C. Vinification is allowed in any winery on Cephalonia by national derogation. The older national product specification gives natural strength 11.0–12.6 % vol and maximum total and actual strength 12.5 % vol; the single-document maximum of 13.5 % vol is kept.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.