What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Sebeş-Apold in Romania
- Latitude
- 45.5°–46.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 333 m to 485 m
- Production zone
- 99,541 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 Sebeş-Apold 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 ·
Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Furmint, Iordana, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Neuburger, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Traminer Roz
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 15.6 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,223 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 414 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 15.6 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,223
- Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 634 mm
- Of 884 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 140 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 401 m; Vineyard point 2, 485 m; Vineyard point 3, 400 m; Vineyard point 4, 289 m; Vineyard point 5, 497 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. Alsace grand cru PraelatenbergVery similarCompared with Sebeş-Apold: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Alsace grand cru Altenberg de BergbietenVery similarCompared with Sebeş-Apold: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Alsace grand cru Altenberg de WolxheimVery similarCompared with Sebeş-Apold: 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, 140 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: Sebeş-Apold (Official Journal C 113, 28.3.2023; and the product specification 'CAIET DE SARCINI DOC SEBES APOLD.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: Minimum total acidity is given as '4,5 in milliequivalents per litre' for both white and red wines, so it is not recorded. The single document sets no maximum yields or specific practices (section 5.1 is empty). Musts and wines may be processed in neighbouring Alba County, and clarification and bottling may take place outside the area with notification. Permitted varieties include Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Fetească albă/neagră/regală, Furmint, Iordană, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Neuburger, Pinot gris, Pinot noir, Riesling Italian, Syrah and Traminer roz. The national specification lists only white varieties and gives minimum total acidity as 4.5 g/l tartaric acid. Its yields vary by variety and the lowest are recorded: C.M.D. 8,000 kg/ha and 54 hl/ha for most varieties, 10,000 kg/67 hl for Fetească albă and Riesling italian, 12,000 kg/80 hl for Fetească regală; C.T. 7,000 to 8,000 kg and 47 to 54 hl (Pinot gris, Muscat Ottonel, Fetească albă, Traminer roz); C.I.B. 6,000 kg and 40 hl (Pinot gris, Traminer roz). 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.