Σαντορίνη

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Σαντορίνη in Greece

Latitude: 36.2°–36.5° N
Vineyard altitude: 21 m to 249 m
Production zone: 9,052 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.

Showing every colour The colour filter changes the rules and grapes. Climate, vintages and soils describe the vineyards, so they stay the same.

01 · What the law says

The rules

Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Σαντορίνη must meet.

6 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Grape sugar min. g/l	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
Santorini Dry white wine	85% Assyrtiko	6.5	50	–	12	12	12	5.5	4	–	–	–
Santorini Dry white wine Επιλεγμένος (Réserve)	85% Assyrtiko	6.5	50	–	12	12	12	5.5	4	12	6	3
Santorini Dry white wine Ειδικά Επιλεγμένος (Grande Réserve)	85% Assyrtiko	6.5	50	–	12	12	12	5.5	4	24	12	6
Santorini Νυχτέρι (Nykteri)	85% Assyrtiko	6.5	50	–	13.5	12	12	5.5	4	–	3	–
Santorini Liqueur wine from raisined grapes	51% Assyrtiko	6.5	50	–	–	21	15	5.5	–	24	24	–
Santorini Naturally sweet white/raisined wine	51% Assyrtiko	6.5	50	260	15	21	9	5.5	–	24	24	–

From the official production rules (EU single document, Official Journal). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Blend rules

Santorini Dry white wine

≥ 85% Assyrtiko · Main grape
– Aidani / Athiri · Allowed

Blend rules

Santorini Dry white wine Επιλεγμένος (Réserve)

≥ 85% Assyrtiko · Main grape
– Aidani / Athiri · Allowed

At least 12 months' ageing.

Blend rules

Santorini Dry white wine Ειδικά Επιλεγμένος (Grande Réserve)

≥ 85% Assyrtiko · Main grape
– Aidani / Athiri · Allowed

At least 24 months' ageing.

Blend rules

Santorini Νυχτέρι (Nykteri)

≥ 85% Assyrtiko · Main grape
– Aidani / Athiri · Allowed

Blend rules

Santorini Liqueur wine from raisined grapes

≥ 51% Assyrtiko · Main grape
– Aidani / Athiri · Allowed
– Gaidouria / Katsano / white Moschato / Monemvassia / Platani / Potamissi / Roditis · Allowed

At least 24 months' ageing.

Blend rules

Santorini Naturally sweet white/raisined wine

≥ 51% Assyrtiko · Main grape
– Aidani / Athiri · Allowed
– Gaidouria / Katsano / white Moschato / Monemvassia / Platani / Potamissi / Roditis · Allowed

At least 24 months' ageing.

Other varieties allowed

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

10 varieties · Santorini Liqueur wine from raisined grapes, Santorini Naturally sweet white/raisined wine

Aidani Aspro, Assyrtiko, Athiri, Gaidouria, Katsano, Monemvassia, Moschato Aspro, Platani, Potamissi, Roditis

3 varieties · 4 wines

Aidani Aspro, Assyrtiko, Athiri

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

Training

Systems allowed

traditional gobelet forms of Santorini; coiled gobelet (crown-shaped); gobelet with hooped and straight canes

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 21.2 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,405 growing degree days (Winkler V).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 106 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 21.2 °C; Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 2,405; Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
Growing-season rain: 59 mm; Of 326 mm a year
Harvest rain: 30 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 84 m; Vineyard point 2, 56 m; Vineyard point 3, 80 m; Vineyard point 4, 77 m; Vineyard point 5, 233 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. Islas CanariasVery similarCompared with Σαντορίνη: same season warmth, wetter (+16 mm).

2. Βουνί Παναγιάς – ΑμπελίτηςVery similarCompared with Σαντορίνη: same season warmth, wetter (+50 mm).

3. ΡόδοςVery similarCompared with Σαντορίνη: same season warmth, wetter (+46 mm).

Growing-season temperature

Σαντορίνη

21.2 °C

Islas Canarias

21.2 °C

Βουνί Παναγιάς – Αμπελίτης

21.1 °C

Ρόδος

21.4 °C

Growing degree days

Σαντορίνη

2,405

Islas Canarias

2,401

Βουνί Παναγιάς – Αμπελίτης

2,368

Ρόδος

2,449

Growing-season rain

Σαντορίνη

59 mm

Islas Canarias

76 mm

Βουνί Παναγιάς – Αμπελίτης

110 mm

Ρόδος

105 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, 30 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
Single document: Σαντορίνη (Official Journal C 143, 31.3.2022; and the product specification 'Προδιαγραφή προϊόντος ΠΟΠ Σαντορίνη.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: Dry wine may hold up to 9 g/l sugar if total acidity is no more than 2 g/l below it; Assyrtiko shares for the liqueur wine are taken from the naturally sweet wine it is made from. Liqueur wine has a maximum actual strength of 22 %; must reaches 370 g/l sugar after raisining (21 % natural); fermentation of dry white must not exceed 20 °C; Vinsanto oxidative ageing takes place only on Santorini and Thirasia, with optional 'Aged for x years' terms in 4-year steps. The national product specification (an older version) gives a maximum yield of 8,000 kg of grapes or 60 hl of wine per hectare and at least 75 % Assyrtiko for the dry white; the single-document values (6.5 t/ha, 50 hl/ha, 85 %) are kept.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.