What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Debrői Hárslevelű in Hungary
- Latitude
- 47.8°–47.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 152 m to 225 m
- Production zone
- 12,700 ha
Lies within
Eger
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 Debrői Hárslevelű must meet.
Blend rules
Debrői Hárslevelű classicus
- ≥ 85% Hárslevelű · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Debrői Hárslevelű superior
- ≥ 85% Hárslevelű · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
; release from 1 May of the year following the harvest.
Blend rules
Debrői Hárslevelű késői szüretelésű
- ≥ 85% Hárslevelű · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
15 varieties · Debrői Hárslevelű classicus, Debrői Hárslevelű superior, Debrői Hárslevelű késői szüretelésű
Chardonnay, Cserszegi Füszeres, Hárslevelü, Irsai Oliver, Királyleányka, Leányka, Olasz Rizling, Ottonel Muskotály, Pinot Blanc, Rajnai Rizling, Sauvignon Blanc, Szürkebarát, Sárga Muskotály, Tramini, Zenit
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,700
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
Guyot; medium-high cordon; low cordon; umbrella; fan; head; gobelet
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 16.8 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,480 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 199 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.8 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,480
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 541 mm
- Of 761 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 122 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 201 m; Vineyard point 2, 152 m; Vineyard point 3, 218 m; Vineyard point 4, 201 m; Vineyard point 5, 225 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. OdobeştiVery similarCompared with Debrői Hárslevelű: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. LimouxVery similarCompared with Debrői Hárslevelű: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Crémant de LimouxVery similarCompared with Debrői Hárslevelű: 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, 122 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: Debrői Hárslevelű (Official Journal C 108, 1.4.2020; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2155263' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
- 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: Main varieties (section 7): 15, including sauvignon, leányka, királyleányka, irsai olivér, hárslevelű, tramini, rajnai rizling, pinot blanc. Classicus grapes need 9.83 % potential alcohol (aromatic varieties) or 10.60 % (Hárslevelű and the other listed varieties); its 13,100 kg/ha limit is stated for mechanical harvest only. Machine-harvested superior and late-harvest grapes are limited to 8,400 and 9,400 kg/ha. Superior vineyards planted after 1 August 2010 need 4,000 vines/ha (classic and late-harvest 3,700); bud load is at most 6 buds per square metre. Late-harvest wine may not be sweetened or partially dealcoholised; classicus and superior may be dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet or sweet. The 2014 national technical file gives classicus grapes 10.60 % vol (17 °MM) for all varieties, without the lower 9.83 % for aromatic varieties in the single document; no must weight is given there for late-harvest wine.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.