Târnave · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Târnave in Romania

Latitude: 45.9°–46.4° N
Vineyard altitude: 317 m to 474 m
Production zone: 231,953 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 Târnave must meet.

8 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Grape sugar min. g/l	Actual alc. min. %	After enrichment max. % alc.	Acidity min. g/l	Dry extract min. g/l	In wood min. months	In bottle min. months	On lees min. months
Târnave D.O.C.-C.M.D. vin alb	white varieties listed	12	80	155	11	12	4.5	17	–	–	–
Târnave D.O.C.-C.M.D. vin roşu	red varieties listed	12	78	155	11	12	4.5	18	–	–	–
Târnave D.O.C.-C.T. vin alb	white varieties listed	10	67	220	11	–	4.5	17	–	–	–
Târnave D.O.C.-C.T. vin roşu	red varieties listed	8	54	220	11	–	4.5	18	–	–	–
Târnave Rezervă	white varieties listed, red varieties listed	–	–	–	11	–	4.5	–	6	6	–
Târnave Vin de vinotecă	white varieties listed, red varieties listed	–	–	–	11	–	4.5	–	12	48	–
Târnave D.O.C.-C.I.B. vin alb	Pinot Gris / Muscat Ottonel / Riesling de Rhin / Fetească Albă / Traminer aromat	8	54	240	11	–	4.5	17	–	–	–
Târnave vin spumant de calitate	Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Muscat Ottonel +7	8.5	51	–	10.5	–	6	–	–	–	9

From the official production rules (national product specification, via the EU register). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Other varieties allowed

Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.

21 varieties ·

Blasius, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Fetească Regală, Furmint, Kerner, Merlot, Muscat Ottonel, Neuburger, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Radames, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sauvignon Blanc, Selena, Syrah, Traminer Roz, Zweigelt

10 varieties · Târnave vin spumant de calitate

Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Regală, Iordana, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Riesling Italian, Riesling de Rhin, Sauvignon Blanc

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

3,500

Vines per hectare, minimum

Permitted, with limits

Irrigation

Allowed

Enrichment (chaptalisation)

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 15.7 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,261 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 388 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 15.7 °C; Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 1,261; Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
Growing-season rain: 553 mm; Of 766 mm a year
Harvest rain: 124 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 371 m; Vineyard point 2, 320 m; Vineyard point 3, 377 m; Vineyard point 4, 474 m; Vineyard point 5, 400 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. NiederösterreichVery similarCompared with Târnave: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. Chambolle-MusignyVery similarCompared with Târnave: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. MusignyVery similarCompared with Târnave: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Târnave

15.7 °C

Niederösterreich

15.7 °C

Chambolle-Musigny

15.7 °C

Musigny

15.7 °C

Growing degree days

Târnave

1,261

Niederösterreich

1,254

Chambolle-Musigny

1,245

Musigny

1,245

Growing-season rain

Târnave

553 mm

Niederösterreich

547 mm

Chambolle-Musigny

554 mm

Musigny

554 mm

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
Product specification: Târnave (Caiet de sarcini DOC Tarnave.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
Product specification: Târnave (CAIET DE SARCINI Vin spumant DOC_Tarnave.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: Sub-denominations Blaj, Jidvei, Mediaş and Târnăveni. Products follow the traditional mentions D.O.C.-C.M.D. (full maturity), D.O.C.-C.T. (late harvest) and D.O.C.-C.I.B. (noble-rot harvest, white varieties only: Pinot Gris, Muscat Ottonel, Riesling de Rhin, Fetească Albă, Traminer aromat; the yield table also lists 54 hl/ha C.I.B. for Sauvignon). Yields per variety: C.M.D. 12 t/ha (14 t/ha Riesling Italian, Fetească Regală, Fetească Albă) and 78-94 hl/ha; C.T. 10 t/ha and 67 hl/ha for whites, 10 t/ha and 65 hl/ha (Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Fetească Neagră) or 8 t/ha and 54 hl/ha (Syrah, Merlot) for reds; no C.T. for Neuburger, Fetească Regală or Furmint. Enrichment is allowed in unfavourable years (must at least 155 g/l sugar), up to 12 % vol total. Sweetness ranges from dry to sweet by residual sugar (sec up to 4 or 9 g/l, demisec up to 12 or 18 g/l, demidulce up to 45 g/l, dulce over 45 g/l). Vin tânăr is wine released before the end of the harvest year; vineyard varietal purity at least 80 %.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.
Also covers PDO-RO-A1064, registered separately for some wine types under the same name; its wines are listed here.
From the specification: Specification covers quality sparkling wine (white, rosé or red) only, made by second fermentation in bottle; all sweetness levels from brut nature to dulce are allowed. Yields vary by variety (lowest kept): Chardonnay 8,500 kg/ha and 51 hl/ha; Pinot Gris, Muscat Ottonel, Sauvignon and Pinot Noir 9,500 kg/ha and 57 hl/ha; Fetească Albă and both Rieslings 12,000 kg/ha and 72 hl/ha; Fetească Regală 14,500 kg/ha and 87 hl/ha; Iordană 15,000 kg/ha and 90 hl/ha. Base wines need at least 9.5 % vol total alcohol, 6.0 g/l acidity, 15 g/l non-reducing extract and at most 4 g/l sugar. Hand harvesting only; the nine months on lees is the condition for the mandatory 'traditional method' indication.