Vinous

PGI · Appellation profile

Limburg

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

Limburg in Netherlands

The boundary for Limburg 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 Limburg must meet.

6 wines in the rules, all colours.
WineMax wine
hl/ha		Actual alc.
min. %
Limburg Landwijn wit 1006.5
Limburg Landwijn rood 856.5
Limburg Parelwijn 856.5
Limburg Parelwijn waaraan koolzuurgas is toegevoegd 856.5
Limburg Mousserende wijn 856.5
Limburg Mousserende Kwaliteitswijn 856.5

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: Limburg (1125-Product Dossier BGA Limburg 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: Product dossier of 26 November 2011 (traditional term 'Landwijn'). Categories: wine, semi-sparkling wine, aerated semi-sparkling wine, sparkling wine and quality sparkling wine; colours are described only for still white and red. Maximum yields are set by grape colour (100 hl/ha white, 85 hl/ha red); the sparkling categories carry the lower (red) figure as their colour is not fixed. Red grapes are limited to 85 hl/ha except Dornfelder, which may yield 100 hl/ha. The minimum alcohol of 6.5 % vol is not specified as actual or total and is recorded as actual. Permitted varieties are those in the national HPA 2009 variety list, which is not reproduced in the dossier.
  • National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.