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Groningen

6Wines in the rules

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Groningen in Netherlands

The boundary for Groningen is not on Vinous yet. It is added by the geography step of the data pipeline.

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 Groningen must meet.

6 wines in the rules, all colours.
WineMax wine
hl/ha		Grape ripeness
min. % pot. alc.
Groningen wijn wit 906.5
Groningen wijn rood 756.5
Groningen Parelwijn 756.5
Groningen Parelwijn waaraan koolzuurgas is toegevoegd 756.5
Groningen Mousserende wijn 756.5
Groningen Mousserende Kwaliteitswijn 756.5

From the official production rules (national product specification, via the EU register). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

02 · Where the numbers come from

Sources

  1. eAmbrosia, the EU register of geographical indications (wine) · European Commission · Commission reuse policy
  2. Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, Article 93 (definitions of designation of origin and geographical indication) and Articles 92-123 · European Union · EU law
  3. Product specification: Groningen (1126-Product Dossier BGA Groningen 1.doc) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
Still to check (3)
  • Boundary not captured yet (PGIs are not in the Eurac boundary data).
  • From the specification: Landwijn PGI covering wine, semi-sparkling (parelwijn, also with added CO2), sparkling and quality sparkling wine. The minimum alcohol of 6.5% vol is not specified as natural, actual or total; recorded as minimum natural potential alcohol. Yield limits are per grape colour (90 hl/ha white, 75 hl/ha red); the sparkling and semi-sparkling categories carry the lower red figure. Varieties are those in the national HPA 2009 regulation list, not reproduced in the dossier.
  • National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.