What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Iaşi in Romania
- Latitude
- 47.0°–47.4° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 79 m to 168 m
- Production zone
- 70,322 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 Iaşi must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
20 varieties ·
Aligoté, Arcaş, Busuioacă de Bohotin, Băbeasacă Neagră, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Golia, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sauvignon Blanc, Traminer Roz, Tămâioasă Românească, Şarba
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,300
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.0 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,522 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 124 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.0 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,522
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 428 mm
- Of 620 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 99 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 110 m; Vineyard point 2, 150 m; Vineyard point 3, 97 m; Vineyard point 4, 112 m; Vineyard point 5, 150 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. Etyek-BudaVery similarCompared with Iaşi: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Pineau des CharentesVery similarCompared with Iaşi: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. NeusiedlerseeVery similarCompared with Iaşi: 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, 99 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: Iaşi (Official Journal C, C/2024/3360, 24.5.2024; and the product specification 'Caiet de sarcini DOC IASI.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 and red values given are the most permissive limit (Fetească regală, Aligoté, Busuioacă de Bohotin, Băbească neagră); Merlot, Arcaş, Fetească neagră, Riesling, Fetească albă, Şarba and Tămâioasă românească are limited to 15,000 kg/ha and 112.50 hl/ha, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot noir, Muscat Ottonel, Sauvignon, Pinot gris, Chardonnay, Traminer roz and Golia to 14,000 kg/ha and 105 hl/ha; rosé and sparkling yields are not set separately. Sub-designations Copou, Bucium, Uricani and Probota and listed single-vineyard names may be added. Sparkling wines need at least 3.5 bar, semi-sparkling 1-2.5 bar. The national specification's yields are lower than the single document's (kept): C.M.D. 9,000 kg/ha and 60 hl/ha for most varieties (recorded for rosé), 11,000 kg/72 hl for Merlot, Riesling italian and Fetească albă, 13,000 kg/85 hl for Fetească regală, Aligoté and Băbească neagră; C.T. 8,000 to 9,000 kg and 52 to 60 hl; C.I.B. 7,000 kg/46 hl (Muscat Ottonel, Sauvignon) and 8,000 kg/52 hl (Fetească albă). C.T. grapes need 220 g/l sugar for whites and 213 g/l for reds. 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.