What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Banu Mărăcine in Romania
- Latitude
- 44.2°–44.6° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 140 m to 210 m
- Production zone
- 52,234 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 Banu Mărăcine must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
16 varieties ·
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Negru de Drăgăşani, Novac, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tămâioasă Românească
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Not allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.4 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,804 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 188 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.4 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,804
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 450 mm
- Of 680 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 105 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 169 m; Vineyard point 2, 164 m; Vineyard point 3, 245 m; Vineyard point 4, 199 m; Vineyard point 5, 165 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. BairradaVery similarCompared with Banu Mărăcine: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. АсеновградVery similarCompared with Banu Mărăcine: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. VentouxVery similarCompared with Banu Mărăcine: 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, 105 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: Banu Mărăcine (Caiet sarcini DOC Banu Maracine.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: Yields differ by variety; the lowest is kept per category. Kg/ha (CMD/CT/CIB): Tămâioasă Românească, Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Fetească Albă, Riesling Italian 12,000/10,000/7,000; Pinot Gris, Muscat Ottonel 10,000/9,000/6,000; Fetească Regală, Merlot, Novac, Negru de Drăgăşani, Syrah, Fetească Neagră 12,000/10,000; Pinot Noir and the Cabernets 10,000/9,000. Wine hl/ha (CMD/CT/CIB): 86/68/42, 72/61/36, 86/68, 82/65 and 68/59 for the same groups. Rosé limits are taken from the red-variety rows (the text gives none for rosé). Dry white CT wines need 13 % vol. New plantings need 4,132 vines/ha; Guyot or cordon training is recommended, max 15 buds/m². Red wines must undergo malolactic fermentation and maturation (3-24 months); Rezervă and Vin de vinotecă apply to any colour; Vin tânăr is released before the end of the harvest year. Vinification outside the zone needs the producers' association's consent. Section VI is empty in the document.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.