Duriense · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Duriense in Portugal

The boundary for Duriense 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 Duriense must meet.

5 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Max wine hl/ha	Wine min. % alc.	Actual alc. min. %	In bottle min. months
Duriense branco	65	–	10	–
Duriense rosado	55	–	10	–
Duriense tinto	55	–	10	–
Duriense espumante	55	–	11	9
Duriense Colheita Tardia	–	16	10.5	–

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.

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

3,000

Vines per hectare, minimum

Cellar

Where the wine must be made

Within the production zone

02 · Where the numbers come from

Sources

eAmbrosia, the EU register of geographical indications (wine) · European Commission · Commission reuse policy
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, Article 93 (definitions of designation of origin and geographical indication) and Articles 92-123 · European Union · EU law
Technical file: Duriense (Ares(2011)1263816) · 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: Source: 2011 technical file (Ares(2011)1263816), Vinho Regional Duriense. Two analytical tiers: minimum actual alcohol 10 % vol for wines of 'quality' tasting grade, 10.5 % for 'very good quality' (lowest recorded). Ageing before sale counted from 1 October of the harvest year: 6 months for 'very good' whites, 12 months for 'very good' reds, none for 'quality' grade wines (so null here). Sparkling: base wine must qualify as Duriense; min 11 % vol actual before expedition liqueur; bottle-fermented; 9 months in bottle from second fermentation for vintage/blanc de blancs/blanc de noirs, 12, 24 or 36 months for higher grades; yield is 55 hl/ha red/rosé and 65 hl/ha white for wine and sparkling alike (the sparkling product carries 55, the lower). Colheita Tardia (late harvest): actual alcohol >= 10.5 %, total >= 16 %, residual sugar >= 80 g/l, SO2 max 400 mg/l, volatile acidity 30 meq/l. Vine density at least 4000/ha (10 % tolerance), 3000/ha (20 % tolerance) on terraces, lower for vines planted before 11 August 1998; vines low, wire-trained, preferably cane/spur/cordon. Production and vinification must take place within the Douro demarcated region; grapes transported whole. Labels need prior approval.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.