Plešivica · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Plešivica in Croatia

Latitude: 45.5°–45.9° N
Vineyard altitude: 177 m to 454 m
Production zone: 107,696 ha

Lies within
Zapadna kontinentalna 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.

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 Plešivica must meet.

14 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Must weight min.	Grape ripeness min. % pot. alc.	Actual alc. min. %	Acidity min. g/l	Dry extract min. g/l	In bottle min. months
Plešivica kvalitetno vino KZP bijelo	11	77	–	8.5	8.5	3.5	17	–
Plešivica kvalitetno vino KZP rosé	11	77	–	8.5	8.5	3.5	18	–
Plešivica kvalitetno vino KZP crno	11	77	–	8.5	8.5	3.5	19	–
Plešivica vrhunsko vino KZP bijelo	10	60	–	10	8.5	3.5	18	–
Plešivica vrhunsko vino KZP rosé	10	60	–	10	8.5	3.5	19	–
Plešivica vrhunsko vino KZP crno	10	60	–	10	8.5	3.5	20	–
Plešivica arhivsko vino	–	–	–	–	8.5	3.5	–	36
Plešivica kasna berba	10	60	94 °Oe	–	5	3.5	–	–
Plešivica izborna berba	10	60	105 °Oe	–	5	3.5	–	–
Plešivica izborna berba bobica	10	60	127 °Oe	–	5	3.5	–	–
Plešivica izborna berba prosušenih bobica	10	60	154 °Oe	–	5	3.5	–	–
Plešivica ledeno vino	10	60	127 °Oe	–	5	3.5	–	–
Plešivica vrhunsko pjenušavo vino	–	–	–	–	–	3.5	–	–
Plešivica kvalitetno biser vino	–	–	–	–	7	3.5	–	–

From the official production rules (national product specification, via the EU register). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Other varieties allowed

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

45 varieties · Plešivica vrhunsko pjenušavo vino, Plešivica kvalitetno biser vino

Alicante Bouschet, Blauburger, Blauer Portugieser, Blaufrankisch, Bouvier, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Dornfelder, Furmint, Gamay, Gamay Teinturier, Gewürztraminer, Kadarka, Kavčina Crna, Kerner, Kraljevina Crvena, Lipovina, Manzoni Bijeli, Merlot, Morio Muscat, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Muscat Blanc, Muscat Noir, Muscat Ottonel, Neuburger, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Plavec Žuti, Riesling, Rotgipfler, Saint Laurent, Savagnin Blanc, Semillon, Sylvaner, Syrah, Veltliner Grüner, Veltliner Roter, Welschriesling, Zelenac Slatki, Zweigeltrebe, Šipelj, Štajerska Belina

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 16.7 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,452 growing degree days (Winkler II).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 229 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 16.7 °C; Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 1,452; Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
Growing-season rain: 672 mm; Of 1,047 mm a year
Harvest rain: 203 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 251 m; Vineyard point 2, 370 m; Vineyard point 3, 169 m; Vineyard point 4, 190 m; Vineyard point 5, 163 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.

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. DoglianiVery similarCompared with Plešivica: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. BrouillyVery similarCompared with Plešivica: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. CondrieuVery similarCompared with Plešivica: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Plešivica

16.7 °C

Dogliani

16.7 °C

Brouilly

16.7 °C

Condrieu

16.8 °C

Growing degree days

Plešivica

1,452

Dogliani

1,452

Brouilly

1,440

Condrieu

1,458

Growing-season rain

Plešivica

672 mm

Dogliani

676 mm

Brouilly

660 mm

Condrieu

673 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, 203 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: Plešivica (PDO-HR-A1654 Plešivica-TC.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: Products are the specification's quality categories (quality wine KZP, top-quality wine KZP, archive wine, the Prädikat-style late-harvest categories, top-quality sparkling and quality semi-sparkling wine); the white/rosé/red split follows the sugar-free extract table (min_dry_extract_g_l = sugar-free extract). Late-harvest categories (kasna berba, izborna berba, izborna berba bobica, izborna berba prosušenih bobica, ledeno vino) are terms of top-quality wine; their yield is assumed to be the top-quality limit; their sugar-free extract follows the top-quality values by colour; ice wine grapes must be picked at -7 °C or below. Enrichment and sweetening are allowed for quality wine (total strength raised by at most 4 % vol.) but prohibited for top-quality and late-harvest wines, as are acidification and deacidification. Archive wine must be kept at least five years, three of them in bottle. Sparkling wine cuvée min. 8.5 % vol. total and at least 3 bar; semi-sparkling base wine min. 9 % vol. total, 1–2.5 bar. No liqueur wine category. Sub-zones (vinogorja): Samobor, Plešivica-Okić, Sveta Jana, Krašić, Ozalj-Vivodina. Main varieties Graševina, Rajnski rizling, Kraljevina, Chardonnay, Portugizac (young wine), Frankovka, Pinot crni.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.