Pokuplje · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Pokuplje in Croatia

Latitude: 45.0°–46.0° N
Vineyard altitude: 139 m to 239 m
Production zone: 784,823 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 Pokuplje 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.	Wine min. % alc.	Actual alc. min. %	Acidity min. g/l	Dry extract min. g/l	In bottle min. months
Pokuplje kvalitetno vino KZP bijelo	11	77	–	8.5	–	8.5	3.5	17	–
Pokuplje kvalitetno vino KZP rosé	11	77	–	8.5	–	8.5	3.5	18	–
Pokuplje kvalitetno vino KZP crno	11	77	–	8.5	–	8.5	3.5	19	–
Pokuplje vrhunsko vino KZP bijelo	10	60	–	10	–	8.5	3.5	18	–
Pokuplje vrhunsko vino KZP rosé	10	60	–	10	–	8.5	3.5	19	–
Pokuplje vrhunsko vino KZP crno	10	60	–	10	–	8.5	3.5	20	–
Pokuplje vrhunsko vino KZP kasna berba	10	60	94 °Oe	–	–	5	3.5	18	–
Pokuplje vrhunsko vino KZP izborna berba	10	60	105 °Oe	–	–	5	3.5	18	–
Pokuplje vrhunsko vino KZP izborna berba bobica	10	60	127 °Oe	–	–	5	3.5	18	–
Pokuplje vrhunsko vino KZP izborna berba prosušenih bobica	10	60	154 °Oe	–	–	5	3.5	18	–
Pokuplje vrhunsko vino KZP ledeno vino	10	60	127 °Oe	–	–	5	3.5	18	–
Pokuplje arhivsko vino	–	–	–	–	–	–	3.5	–	36
Pokuplje vrhunsko pjenušavo vino	–	–	–	–	8.5	–	3.5	–	–
Pokuplje 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.

36 varieties · Pokuplje vrhunsko pjenušavo vino, Pokuplje kvalitetno biser vino

Alicante Bouschet, Blauburger, Blauer Portugieser, Blaufrankisch, Bouvier, Chardonnay, Dišeća Ranina Bijela, Dornfelder, Furmint, Gewürztraminer, Kavčina Crna, Kerner, Manzoni Bijeli, Merlot, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Muscat Blanc, Muscat Noir, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Plavec Žuti, Riesling, Rotgipfler, Saint Laurent, Savagnin Blanc, Semillon, Sylvaner, Veltliner Roter, Welschriesling, Zelenac Slatki, Zweigeltrebe, Šipelj, Škrlet Bijeli, Štajerska Belina

34 varieties ·

Alicante Bouschet, Blauburger, Blauer Portugieser, Blaufrankisch, Bouvier, Chardonnay, Dišeća Ranina Bijela, Dornfelder, Furmint, Kavčina Crna, Kerner, Manzoni Bijeli, Merlot, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Muscat Blanc, Muscat Noir, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Plavec Žuti, Riesling, Rotgipfler, Saint Laurent, Savagnin Blanc, Semillon, Sylvaner, Welschriesling, Zelenac Slatki, Zweigeltrebe, Šipelj, Škrlet Bijeli, Štajerska Belina

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 17.0 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,512 growing degree days (Winkler II).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 203 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 17.0 °C; Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 1,512; Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
Growing-season rain: 643 mm; Of 1,016 mm a year
Harvest rain: 192 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 206 m; Vineyard point 2, 141 m; Vineyard point 3, 262 m; Vineyard point 4, 222 m; Vineyard point 5, 185 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. LoazzoloVery similarCompared with Pokuplje: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. BéarnVery similarCompared with Pokuplje: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. Rías BaixasVery similarCompared with Pokuplje: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Pokuplje

17.0 °C

Loazzolo

16.9 °C

Béarn

16.9 °C

Rías Baixas

17.0 °C

Growing degree days

Pokuplje

1,512

Loazzolo

1,481

Béarn

1,477

Rías Baixas

1,488

Growing-season rain

Pokuplje

643 mm

Loazzolo

652 mm

Béarn

649 mm

Rías Baixas

683 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, 192 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: Pokuplje (PDO-HR-A1656 Pokuplje-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 categories: quality wine KZP and top-quality wine KZP, each split white/rosé/red by the sugar-free extract table (min_dry_extract_g_l = sugar-free extract); the top-quality predicate terms (late harvest 94 °Oe, selected harvest 105 °Oe, selected berries 127 °Oe, selected dried berries 154 °Oe, ice wine 127 °Oe, grapes picked at -7 °C or colder), archive wine, top-quality sparkling and quality semi-sparkling wine. Predicate wines take the top-quality yield; their sugar-free extract minimum is 18 g/l white, 19 rosé, 20 red. Young wine (mlado vino) has no separate limits. Enrichment and sweetening are allowed for quality wine (total strength raised by at most 4 % vol.) but prohibited for top-quality wine and predicate wines, as are acidification and deacidification. Archive wine must be kept at least five years, three of them in bottle. Sparkling cuvée min. 8.5 % vol. total and at least 3 bar; semi-sparkling base wine min. 9 % vol. total, 1–2.5 bar. Sub-zones (vinogorja): Karlovac, Vukomeričke gorice, Petrinja. White varieties include Chardonnay, Dišeća ranina bijela, Graševina, Johanniter, Kerner bijeli, Manzoni bijeli; red include Alicante Bouschet, Blauburger, Cabernet cortis, Dornfelder, Frankovka.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.