What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Eger in Hungary
- Latitude
- 47.8°–48.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 155 m to 280 m
- Production zone
- 56,917 ha
Contains 1 appellation (outlined on the zone map)
Debrői Hárslevelű
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 Eger must meet.
Blend rules
Eger / Egri Classicus bikavér
- 30–65% Kékfrankos · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Turán / Bíborkadarka · Allowed
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Eger / Egri Classicus csillag
- ≥ 50% Cserszegi fűszeres / Ezerfürtű / Furmint / Gyöngyrizling / Hárslevelű / Irsai Olivér / Juhfark / Kabar / Királyleányka / Leányka / Mátrai muskotály / Mézes / Olaszrizling / Zefír / Zenit / Zengő · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Cserszegi fűszeres / Gyöngyrizling / Irsai Olivér / Mátrai muskotály / Ottonel muskotály / Sárga muskotály / Zefír · Allowed
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Eger / Egri Superior bikavér
- 30–65% Kékfrankos · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Turán · Allowed
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Eger / Egri Superior csillag
- ≥ 50% Cserszegi fűszeres / Ezerfürtű / Furmint / Gyöngyrizling / Hárslevelű / Irsai Olivér / Juhfark / Kabar / Királyleányka / Leányka / Mátrai muskotály / Mézes / Olaszrizling / Zefír / Zenit / Zengő · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Cserszegi fűszeres / Gyöngyrizling / Irsai Olivér / Mátrai muskotály / Ottonel muskotály / Sárga muskotály / Zefír · Allowed
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Eger / Egri Grand superior bikavér
- 30–65% Kékfrankos · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Turán · Allowed
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Eger / Egri Grand superior csillag
- ≥ 50% Cserszegi fűszeres / Ezerfürtű / Furmint / Gyöngyrizling / Hárslevelű / Irsai Olivér / Juhfark / Kabar / Királyleányka / Leányka / Mátrai muskotály / Mézes / Olaszrizling / Zefír / Zenit / Zengő · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Cserszegi fűszeres / Gyöngyrizling / Irsai Olivér / Mátrai muskotály / Ottonel muskotály / Sárga muskotály / Zefír · Allowed
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
At least 6 months' ageing.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
47 varieties ·
Alibernet, Blauburger, Bouvier, Bíbor Kadarka, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Chasselas, Cserszegi Füszeres, Csókaszölö, Ezerfürtü, Furmint, Gyöngyrizling, Hamburgi Muskotály, Hárslevelü, Irsai Oliver, Juhfark, Kabar, Kadarka, Kerner, Királyleányka, Kármin, Kékfrankos, Kékoportó, Menoire, Merlot, Mátrai Muskotály, Mézes, Olasz Rizling, Ottonel Muskotály, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Rajnai Rizling, Rizlingszilváni, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Szürkebarát, Sárga Muskotály, Tramini, Viognier, Zefir, Zengö, Zenit, Zweigelt, Zöld Szagos, Zöld Szilváni, Zöld Veltelíni
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 1,470 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 207 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.8 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,470
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 518 mm
- Of 734 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 119 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 223 m; Vineyard point 2, 191 m; Vineyard point 3, 249 m; Vineyard point 4, 120 m; Vineyard point 5, 254 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 Eger: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. TokajVery similarCompared with Eger: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. NeszmélyVery similarCompared with Eger: 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, 119 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: Eger (Official Journal C 150, 5.4.2022; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2154862' 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: Bikavér blends need at least four varieties above 5 % each with Kékfrankos the largest; csillag blends need at least four varieties above 5 % with none over 50 %. Grape yields shown are for hand harvesting (mechanical: 13.1, 7.8 and 5.6 t/ha for Classic, Superior and Grand superior). Minimum potential alcohol shown is the lowest variety group (e.g. 12.08 % for Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot noir and Syrah in Classicus bikavér and vörös; 10.57-10.60 % for other white varieties). Sweetening is prohibited for Classicus bikavér, Classicus csillag and all Superior and Grand superior wines; oak chips, reverse osmosis and partial dealcoholisation are prohibited for Superior late-harvest and Grand superior csillag. Superior and Grand superior wines come only from Class I or II/1 land; density 3,700 vines/ha (4,000 for Superior and Grand superior) for vineyards planted after 1 August 2010. 48 varieties are listed. From the older national technical file (AM02): must weights are the lowest variety group (Classicus reds and rosés 17 °MM, 19 °MM for Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot noir and Syrah; Classicus whites 16 °MM, 17 and 19 °MM for other groups; Superior and Grand superior 20 °MM for all varieties). That text also required bottle ageing before release (6 months for Superior and Grand superior bikavér and Grand superior vörös, 3 months for Superior csillag, late-harvest and Grand superior fehér and csillag), 16 months in wood for Grand superior bikavér and vörös, and bottling of Superior csillag and late-harvest from 1 February after the harvest; the current single document no longer states these, so they are not recorded.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.