What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Odobeşti in Romania
- Latitude
- 45.7°–45.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 166 m to 277 m
- Production zone
- 21,602 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 Odobeşti 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, Barbera, Băbeasacă Gri, Băbeasacă Neagră, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Codană, Crâmpoşie, Crâmpoşie Selecţionată, Donaris, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Frâncuşă, Furmint, Galbenă de Odobeşti, Grasă de Cotnari, Merlot, Muscadelle, Muscat Ottonel, Mustoasă de Măderat, Nebbiolo, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Plăvaie, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sangiovese, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Syrah, Traminer Alb, Traminer Roz, Tămâioasă Românească, Zweigelt, Şarba
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,300
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted
Irrigation
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 16.8 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,473 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 218 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.8 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,473
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 530 mm
- Of 777 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 124 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 277 m; Vineyard point 2, 219 m; Vineyard point 3, 171 m; Vineyard point 4, 259 m; Vineyard point 5, 166 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.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
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. Debrői HárslevelűVery similarCompared with Odobeşti: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. EgerVery similarCompared with Odobeşti: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. LimouxVery similarCompared with Odobeşti: 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, 124 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: Odobeşti (Official Journal C 57, 20.02.2020; and the product specification 'Caiet sarcini DOC ODOBESTI.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 group, not per wine type: 15,000-21,500 kg of grapes per hectare and 115-165 hl/ha (e.g. Cabernet Sauvignon, Fetească Neagră, Pinot Noir, Merlot 17,500 kg/ha and 129 hl/ha, or 135 hl/ha when vinified white). Vine density is at least 3,300 plants/ha in existing plantations and the training method is left to the producer. Permitted varieties include Aligoté, Şarba, Pinot Gris, Riesling de Rhin, Plăvaie, Chardonnay, Fetească albă, Tămâioasă românească, Pinot Noir, Syrah and Galbenă de Odobeşti; the yield table also names varieties (Fetească Regală, Fetească Neagră, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot) that are missing from section 7. The document groups white and rosé wines under one set of analytical limits. Maximum yields are not recorded from the national specification (2011, 10 500–15 000 kg/ha and up to 113 hl/ha by variety) because the newer single document sets different, higher limits. The national text allows enrichment by at most 1,5 % vol and names quality levels D.O.C.-C.M.D., C.T. and C.I.B. without separate grape-sugar limits.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.