What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Távora-Varosa in Portugal
- Latitude
- 40.8°–41.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 245 m to 730 m
- Production zone
- 43,412 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 Távora-Varosa must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
31 varieties · Távora-Varosa vinho espumante
Alvarelhão, Arinto, Bastardo, Bical, Cabernet Sauvignon, Castelão, Cercial, Chardonnay, Fernão Pires, Folgasão, Folha de Figueira, Gouveio, Jaen, Malvasia Fina, Malvasia Preta, Malvasia Rei, Marufo, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Rabo de Ovelha, Rufete, Síria, Tempranillo, Tinta Barocca, Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Trincadeira, Tália, Verdelho, Vinhão, Viosinho
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
cordão; taça
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 16.4 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,382 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 692 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.4 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,382
- Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 376 mm
- Of 802 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 158 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 897 m; Vineyard point 2, 647 m; Vineyard point 3, 600 m; Vineyard point 4, 620 m; Vineyard point 5, 697 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.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in complex terrain (height corrections up to 2.2 °C); absolute values may be several degrees out, year-to-year changes are more reliable.
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. Prado de IracheVery similarCompared with Távora-Varosa: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. ChinonVery similarCompared with Távora-Varosa: same season warmth, wetter (+39 mm).
3. Crémant de LoireVery similarCompared with Távora-Varosa: same season warmth, wetter (+39 mm).
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, 158 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: Távora-Varosa (Caderno de específicações Tav-Varosa - IVDP.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Red varieties include Alvarelhão, Aragonez, Bastardo, Malvasia-Preta, Marufo, Periquita, Rufete, Tinta-Barroca, Touriga-Franca, Touriga-Nacional, Trincadeira-Preta, Vinhão, Jaen and Cabernet-Sauvignon; whites include Bical, Cerceal, Chardonnay, Dona-Branca, Fernão-Pires, Folgasão, Gouveio, Malvasia-Fina, Malvasia-Rei, Rabo-de-Ovelha, Síria, Viosinho, Arinto, Tália and Verdelho; sparkling base wines add Pinot Noir and Pinot Blanc. In new plantings the starred white varieties must make up at least 30 % of the vineyard and Malvasia-Rei at most 10 % (vineyard limits). Sparkling wine ages at least 9 months from bottling (second fermentation in bottle); no separate alcohol minima are given for it. Yields may be adjusted annually by up to 25 %; vines are low-trained (about 80 cm) and must be at least four years grafted; 85 % of a lot must come from the stated vintage.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.