What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Huşi in Romania
- Latitude
- 46.1°–46.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 44 m to 264 m
- Production zone
- 129,185 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 Huşi must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
36 varieties ·
Aligoté, Aromat de Iaşi, Barbera, Busuioacă de Bohotin, Băbeasacă Gri, Băbeasacă Neagră, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Codană, Crâmpoşie Selecţionată, Donaris, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Frâncuşă, Grasă de Cotnari, Merlot, Muscadelle, Muscat Ottonel, Nebbiolo, Negru Aromat, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Plăvaie, Portugais Bleu, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sangiovese, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Syrah, Traminer Roz, Tămâioasă Românească, Zghihară de Huşi, Zweigelt, Şarba
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
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 160 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
- 372 mm
- Of 562 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 91 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 231 m; Vineyard point 2, 95 m; Vineyard point 3, 292 m; Vineyard point 4, 139 m; Vineyard point 5, 44 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. NavarraVery similarCompared with Huşi: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Trás-os-MontesVery similarCompared with Huşi: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. IanaVery similarCompared with Huşi: same season warmth, wetter (+38 mm).
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, 91 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: Huşi (Official Journal C, C/2025/6281,19.11.2025; and the product specification 'Caiet de sarcini DOC Husi.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: Maximum yields are set per variety: white figures are for Aligoté, Fetească regală, Zghihară de Huşi, Crâmpoşie selecţionată, Frâncuşă, Plăvaie, Donaris and Grasă de Cotnari (others 13,500-16,000 kg/ha, 104-123 hl/ha); red figures are for Codană and Portugais bleu (Syrah, Sangiovese, Nebbiolo, Barbera 15,000 kg/ha and 111 hl/ha; Merlot, Zweigelt 13,500 kg/ha and 100 hl/ha; Cabernet Sauvignon, Fetească neagră, Pinot noir, Negru aromat, Băbească neagră 12,600 kg/ha and 93 hl/ha, 97 hl/ha for rosé). Rosé still wines are mentioned (from Pinot gris and Traminer roz, and in the yield table) but have no analytical limits of their own; sparkling wine yields are not set separately. Wines may be processed in listed Vrancea localities; the Vutcani sub-designation and single-vineyard names may be added. The national specification in the register (2011) is older than the single document and differs: planting density 3 330 vines/ha (single document 3 000), lower yields (10 500–13 500 kg/ha, 78–101 hl/ha by variety), red-wine minimum acidity 4,0 g/l and no sparkling wines; existing values are kept. Added from it: grape sugar 170 g/l, natural alcohol 8,5 % vol, dry extract, and the ageing terms Rezervă and Vin de vinotecă (Vin tânăr: released before the end of the harvest year). Malolactic fermentation is compulsory for reds.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.