What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Coteşti in Romania
- Latitude
- 45.3°–45.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 129 m to 317 m
- Production zone
- 54,235 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 Coteşti must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
28 varieties ·
Aligoté, Burgund Mare, Busuioacă de Bohotin, Băbeasacă Gri, Băbeasacă Neagră, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cadarcă, Chardonnay, Crâmpoşie Selecţionată, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Frâncuşă, Furmint, Galbenă de Odobeşti, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Mustoasă de Măderat, Negru Aromat, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Traminer Roz, Tămâioasă Românească, Şarba
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Permitted
Irrigation
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.0 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,518 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 236 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.0 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,518
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 488 mm
- Of 727 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 119 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 267 m; Vineyard point 2, 171 m; Vineyard point 3, 297 m; Vineyard point 4, 170 m; Vineyard point 5, 275 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 moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
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. ΖίτσαVery similarCompared with Coteşti: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Nagy-SomlóVery similarCompared with Coteşti: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. SomlóiVery similarCompared with Coteşti: 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, 119 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: Coteşti (Official Journal C 390, 11.10.2022; and the product specification 'Caiet sarcini DOC COTESTI.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: Section 4 describes the wines variety by variety in a white group and a red group; rosé wines (white and rosé may be made from Pinot gris and Traminer roz) share the white wines' 135 hl/ha limit but have no analytical limits of their own. Red-wine minimum total acidity is given as '3,5 in milliequivalents per litre' and is not recorded. Grape yields are set per variety: white figure is for Fetească regală, Riesling italian, Aligoté, Frâncuşă, Galbenă de Odobeşti, Mustoasă de Măderat, Plăvaie and Furmint (others 14,000-15,500 kg/ha); red figure is for Syrah (Fetească neagră, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot noir and Merlot 17,500 kg/ha; Băbească neagră, Burgund mare, Cadarcă and Negru aromat 15,500 kg/ha). Musts and wines may be processed in neighbouring Vrancea municipalities. The national specification (2011) sets lower maximum yields than the single document (10 500–13 500 kg/ha and 75–101 hl/ha by variety, with up to 10 % more in favourable years); existing values are kept. It gives a minimum total acidity of 3,5 g/l for all wines, an average (not minimum) planting density of 3 000 vines/ha, enrichment by at most 1,5 % vol, and quality levels D.O.C.-C.M.D., C.T. and C.I.B. without separate grape-sugar limits.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.