What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Segarcea in Romania
- Latitude
- 44.0°–44.2° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 91 m to 145 m
- Production zone
- 20,258 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 Segarcea 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 Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Marcelan, Merlot, Negru de Drăgăşani, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tămâioasă Românească, Tămâioasă Roză, Viogner
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
4,132
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
Guyot on a trunk; unilateral or bilateral cordon
Permitted
Irrigation
Not allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.1 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,950 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 120 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.1 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,950
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 431 mm
- Of 650 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 102 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 119 m; Vineyard point 2, 115 m; Vineyard point 3, 129 m; Vineyard point 4, 145 m; Vineyard point 5, 91 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. Picpoul de PinetVery similarCompared with Segarcea: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. ControguerraVery similarCompared with Segarcea: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. AbruzzoVery similarCompared with Segarcea: 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, 102 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: Segarcea (Official Journal C, C/2026/2803, 20.5.2026; and the product specification 'Caiet sarcini DOC Segarcea.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 for white, red and sparkling wines is given in milliequivalents per litre (4,0 and 3,5) and is not recorded. The planting density minimum applies to newly established vineyards. Maximum yields are set by variety group: Tămâioasă românească and Tămâioasă roză also 14,000 kg/ha and 112 hl/ha; rosé and sparkling yields are not set separately. Bud load is limited to 15 buds per square metre; sparkling wines need at least 3.5 bar. The national specification gives minimum total acidity as 4.0 g/l tartaric acid (recorded for white and red) and minimum actual alcohol for red C.M.D. wines as 12 % vol, against 11 % vol in the single document (kept). Its yields vary by variety and the lowest are recorded for rosé, C.T. and C.I.B.: C.M.D. 10,000 to 12,000 kg/ha and 68 to 86 hl/ha; C.T. 9,000 to 10,000 kg and 59 to 68 hl, with 13 % vol for dry whites and reds, 22 g/l extract for reds; C.I.B. 6,000 to 7,000 kg and 36 to 42 hl (white and aromatic varieties only). 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.