What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Crişana in Romania
- Latitude
- 47.0°–47.4° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 152 m to 344 m
- Production zone
- 144,271 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 Crişana must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
15 varieties ·
Burgund Mare, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Mustoasă de Măderat, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Traminer Roz
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 16.4 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,390 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 246 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.4 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,390
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 532 mm
- Of 802 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 133 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 263 m; Vineyard point 2, 204 m; Vineyard point 3, 284 m; Vineyard point 4, 154 m; Vineyard point 5, 326 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. SopronVery similarCompared with Crişana: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. PrekmurjeVery similarCompared with Crişana: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. BurgenlandVery similarCompared with Crişana: 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, 133 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: Crişana (Official Journal C/2023/1572, 19.12.2023; and the product specification 'Caiet DOC CRISANA for Notify.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: The single document states no specific oenological practices and no maximum yields. Maximum volatile acidity is 18 meq/l (white) and 20 meq/l (red). Sub-designations Diosig, Biharia and Şimleul Silvaniei and several single-vineyard names may be added to the label. Varieties (section 7) include Fetească albă, Fetească regală, Furmint, Mustoasă de Măderat, Riesling italian, Burgund Mare, Cadarcă, Fetească neagră, Pinot noir and others. From the national specification: yields and grape sugar vary by variety; the lowest are recorded (C.M.D.: 8,000 kg/ha and 52 hl/ha for Muscat Ottonel, Sauvignon, Traminer roz, Pinot gris, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot noir and Fetească neagră, up to 12,000 kg and 78 hl for Fetească regală and Mustoasă de Măderat; C.T.: 7,000 kg/46 hl, 8,000 kg/52 hl for Fetească albă, Merlot and Syrah). Minimum sugar is 170 g/l for Fetească regală, the Rieslings, Mustoasă de Măderat and Burgund mare and 187 g/l for the other varieties; C.T. needs 220 g/l for whites and 213 g/l for reds. It sets minimum total acidity for white varieties at 5.5 g/l, against 4.5 g/l in the single document (kept); oak maturation is compulsory for red wines (no period given). Rezervă needs 6 months in oak and 6 in bottle; Vin de vinotecă one year in oak and 4 in bottle.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.