What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Panciu in Romania
- Latitude
- 45.8°–46.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 166 m to 391 m
- Production zone
- 41,869 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 Panciu 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 · Panciu vin spumant de calitate alb, Panciu vin spumant de calitate roşu/roze
Aligoté, Băbeasacă Neagră, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Regală, Galbenă de Odobeşti, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Sauvignon Blanc, Şarba
3 varieties · Panciu vin spumant de calitate de tip aromat alb
Muscat Ottonel, Tămâioasă Românească, Şarba
22 varieties ·
Aligoté, Arcaş, Burgund Mare, Băbeasacă Gri, Cadarcă, Chardonnay, Codană, Crâmpoşie, Crâmpoşie Selecţionată, Frâncuşă, Furmint, Galbenă de Odobeşti, Mustoasă de Măderat, Negru Aromat, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Plăvaie, Portugais Bleu, Riesling de Rhin, Traminer Roz, Tămâioasă Românească, Şarba
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 16.5 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,410 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 235 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.5 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,410
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 481 mm
- Of 712 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 115 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 286 m; Vineyard point 2, 145 m; Vineyard point 3, 202 m; Vineyard point 4, 179 m; Vineyard point 5, 365 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. BükkVery similarCompared with Panciu: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Vinohradnícka oblasť TokajVery similarCompared with Panciu: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. CotnariVery similarCompared with Panciu: 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, 115 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
- Product specification: Panciu (CAIET DE SARCINI Vin spumant de calitate DOC_Panciu.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Product specification: Panciu (Caiet sarcini spumant de calitate de tip aromat DOC Panciu.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Single document: Panciu (Official Journal C 397, 17.10.2022; and the product specification 'Caiet sarcini DOC PANCIU.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 (7)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Specification covers quality sparkling wine only, by second fermentation in bottle; sweetness from brut nature to dulce. Yields by variety (lowest kept): 10,500 kg/ha for Chardonnay, Muscat Ottonel, Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and Băbească Neagră; 11,500 kg/ha for Fetească Albă, Aligoté, Riesling Italian, Merlot and Şarbă; 13,500 kg/ha for Fetească Regală and Galbenă de Odobeşti. Wine yields: 57 hl/ha (Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon), 60 (Băbească Neagră), 63 (Merlot), 65 (Chardonnay, Muscat Ottonel, Sauvignon), 72 (Fetească Albă, Riesling Italian), 75 (Şarbă, Aligoté), 87 (Fetească Regală, Galbenă de Odobeşti). Base wines need 9.5 % vol total alcohol, 6.0 g/l acidity, 15 g/l extract and at most 4 g/l sugar (that paragraph mistakenly names Târnave). Hand harvesting only; nine months on lees is the condition for the mandatory traditional-method indication.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.
- Also covers PDO-RO-A1193, registered separately for some wine types under the same name; its wines are listed here.
- From the specification: Specification covers white aromatic quality sparkling wine in demisec (32-50 g/l sugar) and dulce (over 50 g/l) versions only, so sweetness is not fixed. Şarba may yield 11,500 kg/ha (115 q/ha) and 86 hl/ha. Single fermentation of must under pressure to 6 bar; production lasts at least one month; bottling and release from 1 December. Maximum 30 buds per vine; vineyards planted after 2008 need 100 % varietal purity.
- Also covers PDO-RO-A1584, registered separately for some wine types under the same name; its wines are listed here.
- From the specification: White and rosé wines are one category with shared limits. Maximum yields are set per variety: the white grape figure is for Fetească regală, Galbenă de Odobeşti, Crâmpoşie, Frâncuşă, Mustoasă de Măderat, Furmint and Riesling italian (146 hl/ha; Plăvaie 162 hl/ha; other white varieties 15,000-16,500 kg/ha and 116-127 hl/ha); the red figure is for Codană, Arcaş, Negru aromat, Portugais bleu and Cadarcă (Băbească neagră and Burgund mare 17,500 kg/ha and 135 hl/ha; Cabernet Sauvignon, Fetească neagră, Pinot noir and Merlot 16,500 kg/ha and 127 hl/ha). Processing may take place in listed neighbouring Vrancea localities. The national specification (2011) predates the single document and sets lower yields (10 500–15 000 kg/ha and about 75–113 hl/ha by variety); existing values are kept. It 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.