What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Tokaj in Hungary
- Latitude
- 48.1°–48.4° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 114 m to 264 m
- Production zone
- 87,290 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 Tokaj must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
6 varieties · Tokaj / Tokaji Wine – Dry Szamorodni, Tokaj / Tokaji Wine – White, Tokaj / Tokaji Sparkling wine
Furmint, Hárslevelü, Kabar, Kövérszölö, Sárga Muskotály, Zéta
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
4,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
gobelet; cordon (low, medium-high, high); Guyot; umbrella
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 161 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
- 479 mm
- Of 697 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 118 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 136 m; Vineyard point 2, 182 m; Vineyard point 3, 131 m; Vineyard point 4, 96 m; Vineyard point 5, 262 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. NeszmélyVery similarCompared with Tokaj: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. EgerVery similarCompared with Tokaj: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. MátraVery similarCompared with Tokaj: 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, 118 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: Tokaj (Official Journal C, C/2026/1380, 6.3.2026; and the technical file 'Ares(2014)2154407' 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: The 'minimum actual alcoholic strength' figures for Eszencia (27.75), Aszú (19), Sweet Szamorodni, Fordítás, Máslás (16) and late-harvest (13.6) are recorded as printed but appear to be total/potential strengths. Aszú, Fordítás and Máslás base wine needs 12.08 % (19 °MM) and aszú berries 26.08 % (45 refr %); at most 6 l of Eszencia and 220 l of Eszencia, Aszú and Fordítás combined per 100 kg aszú berries. Enrichment, sweetening and acidity adjustment are prohibited for all wine specialities (white wine: sweetening only) and bottling must take place in the area; sparkling wine stays at least 90 days on lees. Hand harvesting except for white and sparkling; 4,000 vines/ha and listed training systems apply to vineyards planted after 1 August 2009. Figures above 18% printed as minimum actual alcohol are total alcoholic strengths (actual plus potential from the sugar), so they are not recorded as actual alcohol. From the older national technical file: must weights of 19 °MM for Aszú, Fordítás and Máslás base wine (Aszú berries 45 refr %), 21 °MM for Szamorodni and 14.9 °MM for sparkling wine; Eszencia yield at most 1.2 hl/ha. That text also sets late-harvest grapes at 12.8 % vol (20 °MM) and other wines at 9 % vol (14.9 °MM), lower than the single-document 13.6 and 10.6 kept here, and longer ageing (Aszú and Aszúeszencia 3 years including 2 in wood; Szamorodni, Fordítás and Máslás 2 years including 1 in wood) than the current wood minimums kept here; it predates the 2013 reform and still lists Aszúeszencia and puttonyos grades.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.