What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Drăgăşani in Romania
- Latitude
- 44.4°–44.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 142 m to 300 m
- Production zone
- 44,683 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 Drăgăşani 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 ·
Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Crâmpoşie Selecţionată, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Negru de Drăgăşani, Novac, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Sauvignon Blanc, Tămâioasă Românească
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,200
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
Guyot; single or bilateral cordon
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.6 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,626 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 236 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.6 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,626
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 546 mm
- Of 791 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 128 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 209 m; Vineyard point 2, 254 m; Vineyard point 3, 130 m; Vineyard point 4, 217 m; Vineyard point 5, 369 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. Crozes-HermitageVery similarCompared with Drăgăşani: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. SlavonijaVery similarCompared with Drăgăşani: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. RecaşVery similarCompared with Drăgăşani: 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, 128 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: Drăgăşani (Official Journal C 439, 29.10.2021; and the product specification 'Caiet de sarcini DOC DRAGASANI.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/rosé wines are one category with shared limits. Maximum yields are set per variety: the white/rosé figure is for Crâmpoșie selecționată; Fetească regală, Riesling italian, Sauvignon, Pinot gris, Chardonnay, Tămâioasă românească and Muscat Ottonel are limited to 12,000 kg/ha and 96 hl/ha. The red figure is for Negru de Drăgășani; Novac, Burgund mare, Merlot, Pinot noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Fetească neagră and Alutus are limited to 10,000 kg/ha and 75 hl/ha. Sweetening is prohibited; new vineyards must have 4,132-5,500 plants/ha. Listed single-vineyard names may be added. The national specification's yields are lower than the single document's (kept): C.M.D. 8,000 to 10,000 kg/ha and 52 to 65 hl/ha by variety; C.T. 6,000 kg/39 hl (Muscat Ottonel, recorded) to 9,000 kg/59 hl (Novac, Negru de Drăgăşani, Merlot); C.I.B. 6,000 kg/39 hl, only for Sauvignon, Pinot gris and Tămâioasă românească. C.T. grapes need 220 g/l sugar for whites and 213 g/l for reds; red C.T. wines need 23 g/l extract. Rezervă, Vin de vinotecă and Vin tânăr may be used under general legislation, without periods stated.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.