What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Villány in Hungary
- Latitude
- 45.8°–46.0° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 107 m to 243 m
- Production zone
- 27,345 ha
Lies within
Pannon
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 Villány must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
27 varieties ·
Blauburger, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Cserszegi Füszeres, Hárslevelü, Irsai Oliver, Kadarka, Királyleányka, Kékfrankos, Kékoportó, Menoire, Merlot, Olasz Rizling, Ottonel Muskotály, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Rajnai Rizling, Rizlingszilváni, Syrah, Szürkebarát, Sárga Muskotály, Tramini, Zengö, Zenit, Zweigelt, Zöld Veltelíni
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
ernyő (umbrella); Guyot; bak (gobelet); alacsony kordon (low cordon); középmagas kordon (medium-high cordon); magas kordon (high cordon)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.7 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,643 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 147 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.7 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,643
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 445 mm
- Of 704 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 122 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 149 m; Vineyard point 2, 129 m; Vineyard point 3, 99 m; Vineyard point 4, 255 m; Vineyard point 5, 101 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. BourgVery similarCompared with Villány: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. TihanyVery similarCompared with Villány: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. BordeauxVery similarCompared with Villány: 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
- Product specification: Villány (VILLANY_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 are the three tiers (Villányi bor, classicus, prémium) by colour. Prémium red must spend at least 1 year in wooden casks, varietal Kadarka and Portugieser prémium at least 6 months (the lower figure is recorded). Prémium grape minimums vary by variety: 20 MM°/12.83 % for Cabernet franc, Cabernet sauvignon, Hárslevelű, Merlot, Rajnai rizling, Sauvignon blanc, Tramini; 19 MM°/12.08 % for Kékfrankos, Olaszrizling, Pinot noir, Syrah, Zweigelt; 18.5 MM°/11.71 % Chardonnay; 18 MM°/11.34 % Ottonel muskotály; 17.5 MM°/10.97 % Kadarka, Kékoportó (lowest recorded). Density: classicus at least 3,000 and prémium at least 5,000 vines/ha (classicus max. 8 buds/m² for gobelet, 6 otherwise, 20 per vine; prémium max. 6 buds/m², 15 per vine; prémium training: umbrella, Guyot, gobelet, low and medium-high cordon). Sweetening is prohibited for classicus and prémium wines and for late-harvest wines (which may not be enriched either); semi-dry to sweet wines only from naturally ripe Hárslevelű, Ottonel muskotály, Olasz rizling, Rajnai rizling, Sárga muskotály or Tramini. Total acidity range 4–10 g/l. Classicus and prémium are sold in glass bottles only; prémium may be produced and bottled only in Baranya county, Villányi and classicus also in Somogy and Tolna.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.