What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Dealu Mare in Romania
- Latitude
- 44.9°–45.3° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 112 m to 365 m
- Production zone
- 83,446 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 Dealu Mare must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
3 varieties · Dealu Mare vin spumant de calitate de tip aromat alb, Dealu Mare vin spumant de calitate de tip aromat rose
Busuioacă de Bohotin, Muscat Ottonel, Tămâioasă Românească
14 varieties ·
Burgund Mare, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sauvignon Blanc, Tămâioasă Românească, Viogner
33 varieties ·
Aligoté, Barbera, Burgund Mare, Busuioacă de Bohotin, Băbeasacă Neagră, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Crâmpoşie Selecţionată, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Grasă de Cotnari, Grenache, Merlot, Mourvèdre, Muscat Ottonel, Nebbiolo, Negru Aromat, Negru de Drăgăşani, Novac, Petit Verdot, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sangiovese, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Traminer Roz, Tămâioasă Românească, Viogner
13 varieties · Dealu Mare vin spumant de calitate alb, Dealu Mare vin spumant de calitate roşu/roze
Burgund Mare, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Regală, Merlot, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sauvignon Blanc, Traminer Roz, Viogner
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,300
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
low training; semi-high trunk
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.2 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,563 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 172 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.2 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,563
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 458 mm
- Of 686 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 113 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 275 m; Vineyard point 2, 210 m; Vineyard point 3, 168 m; Vineyard point 4, 94 m; Vineyard point 5, 111 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. ТърговищеVery similarCompared with Dealu Mare: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. KáliVery similarCompared with Dealu Mare: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Balatonfüred-CsopakVery similarCompared with Dealu Mare: 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, 113 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: Dealu Mare (Caiet sarcini Spumant de calitate de tip aromat DOC Dealu Mare.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Product specification: Dealu Mare (Caiet sarcini Vin petiant DOC Dealu Mare.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Single document: Dealu Mare (Official Journal C 253, 18.7.2023; and the product specification 'Caiet de sarcini DOC DEALU MARE.pdf' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
- Product specification: Dealu Mare (Caiet de sarcini vin spumant de calitate DOC Dealu Mare.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (9)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Specification covers aromatic quality sparkling wine (white or rosé, semi-sweet or sweet) only; sweetness is therefore not fixed: 32-50 g/l sugar for demisec, at least 50 g/l for dulce. Moscato Bianco may yield 14,000 kg/ha (140 q/ha). The yield limits in section I.8 are of must (90 hl/ha, 105 hl/ha for Moscato Bianco), not wine. Single fermentation of must under pressure to 6 bar; production lasts at least one month; bottling from 1 December. Production may also take place in the nearby towns of Ploieşti, Mizil and Buzău; sub-designations Valea Călugărească, Urlaţi and Tohani may be added. Maximum 30 buds per vine; vineyards planted after 2008 need 100 % varietal purity.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.
- Also covers PDO-RO-A1067, registered separately for some wine types under the same name; its wines are listed here.
- From the specification: Specification covers semi-sparkling wine (vin petiant, 1-2.5 bar), white or rosé, in sec, demisec, demidulce and dulce versions (sugar up to 4, 12, 45 g/l and at least 45 g/l), so sweetness is not fixed. Grape colours per product are inferred from the white/red variety lists; rosé descriptions name Fetească Neagră, Merlot, Pinot Noir and Burgund Mare. Riesling Italian, Merlot, Viognier, Burgund Mare and Fetească Regală may yield 14,000 kg/ha and 100 hl/ha. Base wine needs at least 9 % vol total alcohol; up to 15 % must of another variety may be added. Bottling and release from 1 December; sub-designation Tohani may be added; maximum 30 buds per vine.
- Also covers PDO-RO-A1079, registered separately for some wine types under the same name; its wines are listed here.
- From the specification: Yields given are for grapes harvested at full maturity; late-harvest still wines are limited to 12,000 kg/ha (white 78 hl/ha) and noble-rot wines to 10,000 kg/ha (white 65 hl/ha); no hl/ha limit is given for still rosé/red wines. Rosé/red quality sparkling wines are limited to 12,000 kg/ha and 78 hl/ha, rosé/red aromatic sparkling wines to 12,000 kg/ha and 90 hl/ha. White and rosé wines not from Valea Călugărească have at least 5 g/l glucose + fructose. Semi-sparkling and aromatic sparkling vineyards need 3,300 vines/ha; plantings need 85 % varietal purity. Sub-designations Boldeşti, Valea Călugărească and Urlaţi and single-vineyard names may be added. From the national specification: rosé and red wine yields are recorded at the lowest limit (59 hl/ha for Muscat Ottonel, Tămâioasă românească, Busuioacă de Bohotin, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot noir, Fetească neagră and others; up to 91 hl/ha for Fetească regală, Syrah, Trebbiano). Late-harvest (C.T.) yields run from 8,000 kg/52 hl to 12,000 kg/78 hl and need 220 g/l sugar for whites, 213 g/l for reds; noble-rot (C.I.B.) wines 7,000 kg/46 hl and 240 g/l. Enrichment up to 1.5 % vol only with must or concentrated must from the area or rectified concentrated must. Rezervă needs 6 months in oak and/or 6 in bottle, Vin de vinotecă one year in oak and/or 4 years in bottle; the shorter alternative is recorded as total ageing.
- Also covers PDO-RO-A1336, registered separately for some wine types under the same name; its wines are listed here.
- From the specification: Specification covers quality sparkling wine (white, rosé or red) by the traditional method, sweetness from brut nature to dulce. Yields by variety (lowest kept): 10,000 kg/ha and 65 hl/ha for Pinot Noir, Traminer Roz, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc, Fetească Albă, Riesling de Rhin and Sauvignon; 12,000 kg/ha and 78 hl/ha for Riesling Italian, Merlot, Viognier and Burgund Mare; 14,000 kg/ha and 91 hl/ha for Fetească Regală. Nine months on lees is the condition for the 'fermentat în sticlă prin metoda tradiţională' indication. Grapes must come 100 % from the area, but production may also take place in nearby Ploieşti, Azuga, Mizil and Buzău. Eight sub-designations (Boldeşti, Valea Călugărească, Urlaţi, Ceptura, Tohani, Breaza, Merei, Zoreşti) and named plai may be added.