What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Murfatlar in Romania
- Latitude
- 44.1°–44.5° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 25 m to 90 m
- Production zone
- 125,903 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 Murfatlar must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
17 varieties ·
Burgund Mare, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Columna, Crâmpoşie, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tămâioasă Românească
8 varieties ·
Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Fetească Neagrăn, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Tămâioasă Românească
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,300
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.4 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,802 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 58 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.4 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,802
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 346 mm
- Of 562 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 97 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 55 m; Vineyard point 2, 80 m; Vineyard point 3, 46 m; Vineyard point 4, 78 m; Vineyard point 5, 31 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. PortoVery similarCompared with Murfatlar: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Costers del SegreVery similarCompared with Murfatlar: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Sierra de SalamancaVery similarCompared with Murfatlar: 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, 97 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: Murfatlar (Official Journal C, C/2025/1479, 6.3.2025; and the product specification 'Caiet de sarcini DOC Murfatlar complet Link with area.doc' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
- Product specification: Murfatlar (Caiet_sarcini_licoros_DOC_Murfatlar.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (5)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Still-wine yields are set by variety, not wine type: 15,000 kg/ha and 105 hl/ha for Sauvignon, the Rieslings, Fetească regală and albă, Tămâioasă românească, Crâmpoșie, Columna and Traminer roz; 105 hl/ha for Merlot and Fetească neagră; 14,300 kg/ha and 100 hl/ha for Muscat Ottonel, Pinot noir, Syrah and Burgund mare; 13,600 kg/ha and 95 hl/ha for Chardonnay and Pinot gris; 12,900 kg/ha and 90 hl/ha for Cabernet Sauvignon; 12,000 kg/ha and 84 hl/ha for Mamaia. Ice wine grapes freeze on the vine (or in cold storage if needed); blanc de noirs, skin-macerated amber and rosé-from-white-grape wines are allowed. Sparkling wines need at least 3.5 bar (aromatic 3.0, semi-sparkling 1.0–2.5); the sparkling method and lees time are not fixed. The national specification (2013) gives minimum total acidity of 4.5 g/l for still wines, against 3.5 g/l in the single document (kept). It sets yields for late-harvest (C.T.) and noble-rot (C.I.B.) grapes by variety; the lowest are recorded (C.T.: 11,400 kg/ha and 80 hl/ha for Chardonnay; C.I.B.: 8,600 kg/ha and 60 hl/ha for Chardonnay and Pinot gris; others up to 13,600 kg and 95 hl for C.T., 10,000 kg and 70 hl for C.I.B.), with no separate sugar minimum beyond 187 g/l. Enrichment is limited to 1.5 % vol (2 % vol in exceptional years). 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.
- Also covers PDO-RO-A0624, registered separately for some wine types under the same name; its wines are listed here.
- From the specification: Specification covers liqueur wines (vin licoros) only. Yields vary by variety: 11,400 kg/ha and 80 hl/ha for Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and Cabernet Sauvignon; 12,900 kg/ha and 90 hl/ha for Muscat Ottonel and Pinot Noir; 13,600 kg/ha and 95 hl/ha for Sauvignon, Tămâioasă Românească, Merlot and Fetească Neagră. Actual alcohol at most 22 % vol; fermentation stopped with wine distillate (52-86 % vol) or neutral vine alcohol (at least 96 % vol). Vineyards need 80 % varietal purity; green harvesting is mandatory when yields would exceed the limits. Sub-designations Medgidia and Cernavodă may be added.