What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Dingač in Croatia
- Latitude
- 42.9°–43.0° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 12 m to 340 m
- Production zone
- 13,133 ha
Lies within
Srednja i Južna Dalmacija, Primorska Hrvatska
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 Dingač must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
1 varieties · Dingač, Dingač Klasiko, Dingač Riserva
Plavac Mali Crni
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
račvasti oblik trsa (En Gobelet), 3–4 arms, no trellis
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.6 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,046 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 167 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.6 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,046
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 588 mm
- Of 1,348 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 284 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 57 m; Vineyard point 2, 19 m; Vineyard point 3, 49 m; Vineyard point 4, 276 m; Vineyard point 5, 434 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 complex terrain (height corrections up to 2.3 °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. Bagnoli FriularoVery similarCompared with Dingač: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Bagnoli di SopraVery similarCompared with Dingač: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Corti Benedettine del PadovanoVery similarCompared with Dingač: 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, 284 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: Dingač (Specifikacija proizvoda - ZOI Dingač.doc) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Red wine from Plavac mali crni only. Planting density up to 10,000 vines/ha; terrace walls must use original local stone and importing soil is prohibited; must sugar at least 19.5 % (Babo) with 4.0 g/l acidity; grape-to-wine yield 45–60 %, press wine excluded. Wines are normally dry, semi-dry possible. Primary processing, storage and bottling may take place outside the zone but only within the municipalities of Orebić and Trpanj. Named vineyard sites may appear on the label if 85 % of the grapes come from them.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.