What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Babadag in Romania
- Latitude
- 44.5°–45.2° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 15 m to 98 m
- Production zone
- 203,071 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 Babadag must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
14 varieties ·
Aligoté, Băbeasacă Neagră, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Columna, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Sauvignon Blanc
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
4,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.3 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,784 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 64 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.3 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,784
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 337 mm
- Of 542 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 89 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 127 m; Vineyard point 2, 38 m; Vineyard point 3, 39 m; Vineyard point 4, 84 m; Vineyard point 5, 33 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.
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. Sarica NiculiţelVery similarCompared with Babadag: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. AdamclisiVery similarCompared with Babadag: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. PortoVery similarCompared with Babadag: 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, 89 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: Babadag (Official Journal C, C/2024/5858, 27.9.2024; and the product specification 'Caiet de sarcini DOC BABADAG.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: White and rosé wines are one category with shared limits; ice wines may be white, rosé or red. Still wines produced without enrichment may reach 20 % total alcohol. The ice-wine wine yield is written as 'max. 18 % hl/ha' (unit unclear, so not recorded as hl/ha). Vineyards need 85 % varietal purity. Grapes may be processed and wines bottled outside the area with notification to ONVPV. Listed single-vineyard names may be added. The national specification in the register (2011) predates the single document and differs from it: minimum total acidity 4,5 g/l (single document 3,5), planting density 3 330 vines/ha (4 000), lower yields (C.M.D. 9 000–12 000 kg/ha and 60–82 hl/ha by variety; C.T. 8 000–9 000 kg/ha and 52–60 hl/ha) and no ice wine; existing values are kept. Added from it: grape sugar 187 g/l (C.M.D.) and 210 g/l (late-harvest C.T.), dry extract, the ageing terms Rezervă and Vin de vinotecă; Vin tânăr may be used for wines released before the end of the harvest year.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.