Balatonboglár · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Balatonboglár in Hungary

Latitude: 46.2°–46.9° N
Vineyard altitude: 126 m to 222 m
Production zone: 119,468 ha

Lies within
Balaton

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 Balatonboglár must meet.

19 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	With named unit 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	On lees min. months
Balatonboglár fehér bor	–	14	11	100	152	9	9	6	4.6	–
Balatonboglár rozé bor	–	14	11	100	152	9	9	6	4.6	–
Balatonboglár vörös bor	–	14	11	100	152	9	9	9	4.6	–
Balatonboglár fehér pezsgő	–	14	–	100	152	9	9.5	9.5	4.6	–
Balatonboglár rozé pezsgő	–	14	–	100	152	9	9.5	9.5	4.6	–
Balatonboglár vörös pezsgő	–	14	–	100	152	9	9.5	9.5	4.6	–
Balatonboglár fehér termelői pezsgő	–	14	–	100	168	10	10	–	4.6	12
Balatonboglár rozé termelői pezsgő	–	14	–	100	168	10	10	–	4.6	12
Balatonboglár vörös termelői pezsgő	–	14	–	100	168	10	10	–	4.6	12
Balatonboglár fehér minőségi pezsgő	–	14	–	100	152	9	10	10	4.6	–
Balatonboglár rozé minőségi pezsgő	–	14	–	100	152	9	10	10	4.6	–
Balatonboglár vörös minőségi pezsgő	–	14	–	100	152	9	10	10	4.6	–
Balatonboglár fehér minőségi termelői pezsgő	–	14	–	100	168	10	10	–	4.6	12
Balatonboglár rozé minőségi termelői pezsgő	–	14	–	100	168	10	10	–	4.6	12
Balatonboglár vörös minőségi termelői pezsgő	–	14	–	100	168	10	10	–	4.6	12
Balatonboglár illatos minőségi pezsgő	Csabagyöngye / Cserszegi fűszeres / Tramini / Irsai Olivér / Rizlingszilváni / Sárga muskotály / Ottonel muskotály	14	–	100	152	9	10	6	4.6	–
Balatonboglár fehér szén-dioxid hozzáadásával készült gyöngyözőbor	–	14	–	100	152	9	9	7	4.6	–
Balatonboglár rozé szén-dioxid hozzáadásával készült gyöngyözőbor	–	14	–	100	152	9	9	7	4.6	–
Balatonboglár vörös szén-dioxid hozzáadásával készült gyöngyözőbor	–	14	–	100	152	9	9	7	4.6	–

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.

34 varieties ·

Blauburger, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Chasselas, Csabagyöngye, Cserszegi Füszeres, Csomorika, Csókaszölö, Furmint, Gohér, Hárslevelü, Irsai Oliver, Kadarka, Királyleányka, Kékfrankos, Kékoportó, Leányka, Merlot, Olasz Rizling, Ottonel Muskotály, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Rajnai Rizling, Rizlingszilváni, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Syrah, Szürkebarát, Sárga Muskotály, Tramini, Zenit, Zweigelt, Zöld Veltelíni

7 varieties · 16 wines

Csabagyöngye, Cserszegi Füszeres, Irsai Oliver, Ottonel Muskotály, Rizlingszilváni, Sárga Muskotály, Tramini

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

3,300

Vines per hectare, minimum

Training

Systems allowed

ernyő (umbrella); Moser; Sylvoz; alacsony és középmagas kordon (low and medium-high cordon); Guyot; fejművelés (head); bakművelés (gobelet)

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 17.4 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,591 growing degree days (Winkler II).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 153 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 17.4 °C; Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 1,591; Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
Growing-season rain: 476 mm; Of 734 mm a year
Harvest rain: 132 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 147 m; Vineyard point 2, 179 m; Vineyard point 3, 169 m; Vineyard point 4, 131 m; Vineyard point 5, 137 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. PécsVery similarCompared with Balatonboglár: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. VinsobresVery similarCompared with Balatonboglár: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. СлавянциVery similarCompared with Balatonboglár: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Balatonboglár

17.4 °C

Pécs

17.4 °C

Vinsobres

17.4 °C

Славянци

17.4 °C

Growing degree days

Balatonboglár

1,591

Pécs

1,591

Vinsobres

1,580

Славянци

1,603

Growing-season rain

Balatonboglár

476 mm

Pécs

464 mm

Vinsobres

465 mm

Славянци

459 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, 132 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: Balatonboglár (BALATONBOGLAR_termekleiras.pdf) · 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 follow the specification's five categories (wine, sparkling wine, quality sparkling wine, aromatic quality sparkling wine, semi-sparkling wine with added CO2) by colour; the 'termelői' (producer) sparkling types must stay at least twelve months on the lees in the cuvée's own winery and are disgorged. The lees period is from the 2011 product specification; the register also lists a 2019 publication (Ares(2018)313636) not held here. For the producer sparkling types the table puts 11.5 % vol in the minimum actual strength column, above their 10.0 % total minimum, so actual strength is left null pending a check of the column order. Yields: 100 hl/ha new wine on lees, 14 t/ha hand-harvested or 13.5 t/ha machine-harvested; vineyard-named still wines 11 t/ha hand, 10.5 t/ha machine (80 hl/ha) and need 95 % of grapes from the vineyard. Total acidity 4.6–10.0 g/l; pressure min. 3.0 bar (3.5 for quality/producer types), 1–2.5 bar for semi-sparkling. Selected-harvest, late-harvest, raisined-grape and ice wines must be hand-picked and may not be sweetened. Density and training rules apply to vineyards planted after 1 August 2010. Production is also allowed in Zala, Veszprém, Fejér, Tolna and Baranya counties.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.