What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Vinho Verde in Portugal
- Latitude
- 40.8°–42.2° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 43 m to 436 m
- Production zone
- 840,881 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 Vinho Verde must meet.
Blend rules
Vinho Verde white wines
- 100% white varieties · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Vinho Verde rosé wines
- 100% red varieties · Main grape
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Blend rules
Vinho Verde red wines
- – red varieties · Main grape
- ≤ 15% white varieties · Allowed
- – Varieties listed in the specification · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
23 varieties · Espumante de Vinho Verde, Espumante de Qualidade de Vinho Verde
Alvarinho, Arinto, Avesso, Azal, Batoca, Cainho, Cascal, Diagalves, Esganinho, Esganoso, Fernão Pires, Folgasão, Lameiro, Loureiro, Malvasia Fina, Malvasia Rei, Pical, Pintosa, Semillon, Sercial, São Mamede, Trajadura, Tália
43 varieties ·
Alicante Bouschet, Alvarelhão, Alvarinho, Amaral, Arinto, Avesso, Azal, Baga, Batoca, Borraçal, Cainho, Cascal, Diagalves, Doce, Doçal, Esganinho, Esganoso, Espadeiro, Espadeiro Mole, Fernão Pires, Folgasão, Grand Noir, Labrusco, Lameiro, Loureiro, Malvasia Fina, Malvasia Rei, Mourisco, Padeiro, Pedral, Pical, Pintosa, Rabo de Anho, Semillon, Sercial, São Mamede, Touriga Nacional, Trajadura, Trincadeira, Tália, Verdelho Tinto, Verdial Tinto, Vinhão
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
Uveiras; Arjões; Bordadura; Ramadas; Bardo; Cordon
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.9 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,683 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 168 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.9 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,683
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 654 mm
- Of 1,476 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 271 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 149 m; Vineyard point 2, 172 m; Vineyard point 3, 164 m; Vineyard point 4, 20 m; Vineyard point 5, 334 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 3.2 °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. Cesanese di AffileVery similarCompared with Vinho Verde: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Malvasia di Casorzo d'AstiVery similarCompared with Vinho Verde: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. MonferratoVery similarCompared with Vinho Verde: 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, 271 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
- Single document: Vinho Verde (Official Journal C, C/2024/3412, 29.5.2024; and the product specification 'DO - Caderno Especificações DO Vinho Verde - final.pdf' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
- 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 wine with up to 15 % white grapes must be labelled 'Palhete' or 'Palheto'; sparkling wines (white, rosé or red) may make white wine from red-grape base wine. Musts for wines naming a subregion need 9 % vol natural strength and Alvarinho wines 11.5 %; Alvarinho must yield is limited to 65 litres per 100 kg, and Alvarinho may be named with a subregion only in Monção e Melgaço. Vindima Tardia / Colheita Tardia / Late Harvest wines must come from overripe grapes. Vines must be medium or high trained (traditional uveiras, arjões, bordadura, ramadas, or modern bardo and cordon). No acidity minimum or sparkling method is stated. The national specification adds Vindima tardia (late harvest) wine from overripe grapes: at least 45 g/l residual sugar, 15 % vol natural and at most 14 % vol actual alcohol. Grape yield may rise to 13,500 kg/ha for vineyards meeting productivity and quality requirements and is 7,500 kg/ha for vineyards whose register entry is over five years old. Sparkling wines must spend nine months at the producer's premises after bottling.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.