What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Mátra in Hungary
- Latitude
- 47.4°–47.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 146 m to 309 m
- Production zone
- 169,980 ha
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 Mátra must meet.
Blend rules
Mátra wine Muskotály
- ≥ 85% Cserszegi fűszeres / Irsai Olivér / Ottonel muskotály / Sárga muskotály · 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.
30 varieties · 8 wines
Blauburger, Bíbor Kadarka, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Chasselas, Cserszegi Füszeres, Furmint, Hárslevelü, Irsai Oliver, Kadarka, Királyleányka, Kékfrankos, Leányka, Merlot, Olasz Rizling, Ottonel Muskotály, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Rajnai Rizling, Rizlingszilváni, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Szürkebarát, Sárga Muskotály, Tramini, Turán, Zenit, Zweigelt, Zöld Veltelíni
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,530
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
umbrella; Moser; single curtain; Sylvoz; low and medium-height cordon
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 16.9 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,494 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 187 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.9 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,494
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 447 mm
- Of 666 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 114 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 206 m; Vineyard point 2, 168 m; Vineyard point 3, 234 m; Vineyard point 4, 106 m; Vineyard point 5, 221 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. Pineau des CharentesVery similarCompared with Mátra: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. NeusiedlerseeVery similarCompared with Mátra: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. PannonhalmaVery similarCompared with Mátra: 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, 114 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: Mátra (Official Journal C, C/2025/5009, 12.9.2025; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2156660' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Varieties (section 7): 29, including blauburger, cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, chasselas, cserszegi fűszeres, furmint, hárslevelű. Yields drop for wines naming a municipality or vineyard (vineyard-named wines 56 hl/ha; late-harvest 56 hl/ha and 8,000 kg/ha with a municipality, 40 hl/ha with a vineyard; Muscat 12,000 kg/ha with a municipality; aerated semi-sparkling 84 hl/ha and 12,000 kg/ha with a municipality). Superior wines are limited to 1 kg of grapes per vine and 12 buds per square metre, must be hand-harvested, and may not be sweetened, enriched, acidified, de-acidified, treated with oak chips or reverse osmosis; late-harvest wine may not be sweetened or enriched, is hand-harvested and may be bottled no earlier than 1 March after the harvest. Superior wines may be dry or semi-dry. The national technical file gives must weights (15 °MM; late-harvest 19 °MM) but none for Superior or aerated semi-sparkling wines.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.