What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Lechinţa in Romania
- Latitude
- 46.6°–47.3° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 350 m to 454 m
- Production zone
- 133,303 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 Lechinţa must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
13 varieties ·
Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Neuburger, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Sauvignon Blanc, Traminer Roz
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 14.8 °C, cool on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,105 growing degree days (Winkler Ia).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 414 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 14.8 °C
- Cool · 13–15 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,105
- Region Ia: under 1,111 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 563 mm
- Of 828 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 137 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 454 m; Vineyard point 2, 434 m; Vineyard point 3, 358 m; Vineyard point 4, 413 m; Vineyard point 5, 411 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. Côtes d'AuvergneVery similarCompared with Lechinţa: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Côtes de ToulVery similarCompared with Lechinţa: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Achterhoek - WinterswijkVery similarCompared with Lechinţa: 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, 137 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: Lechinţa (Official Journal C/2023/1493, 12.12.2023; and the product specification 'CAIET DE SARCINI DOC LECHINTA.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: the white figures are for Pinot gris, Sauvignon, Neuburger, Fetească regală and Traminer roz; Riesling Italian, Fetească albă and Chardonnay are limited to 10,000 kg/ha and 66 hl/ha, Muscat Ottonel to 8,000 kg/ha (its wine yield is misprinted as '53 kilograms of grapes per hectare'). Sauvignon appears in the yield table but not in the variety list. Listed single-vineyard names may be added. The national specification lists only white varieties and sets late-harvest (C.T.) rules for Muscat Ottonel alone (7,000 kg/ha, 47 hl/ha, at least 220 g/l sugar); full-maturity (C.M.D.) grapes need more than 155 g/l sugar. It gives Muscat Ottonel's C.M.D. wine yield as 53 hl/ha. Dry wines may have up to 4 g/l sugar (9 g/l with the acidity rule), medium-dry 12 or 18 g/l, medium-sweet 45 g/l. The straw wine is not covered by the national text.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.