What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Karpatská perla in Slovakia
- Latitude
- 48.0°–48.5° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 151 m to 272 m
- Production zone
- 77,756 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 Karpatská perla must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
31 varieties · Karpatská perla šumivé víno
Alibernet, André, Aurelius, Bouvierovo Hrozno, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Devín, Dievcie Hrozno, Dunaj, Feteasca Regala, Frankovka Modra, Irsai Oliver, Modrý Portugal, Muller Thurgau, Muškát Moravský, Muškát Ottonel, Neronet, Neuburské, Pinot Noir, Pálava, Rizling Rýnsky, Rizling Vlasský, Rulandské Biele, Rulandské Šedé, Sauvignon Blanc, Silvánske Zelené, Svatovavřinecké, Tramín Cervený, Veltlínske Cervené Skoré, Veltlínské Zelené, Zweigeltrebe
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 16.2 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,356 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 219 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 16.2 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,356
- Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 475 mm
- Of 699 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 122 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 261 m; Vineyard point 2, 299 m; Vineyard point 3, 192 m; Vineyard point 4, 143 m; Vineyard point 5, 198 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. LeithabergVery similarCompared with Karpatská perla: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. NitrianskaVery similarCompared with Karpatská perla: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. WienVery similarCompared with Karpatská perla: 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, 122 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: Karpatská perla (karpatska perla.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: The source is a 1997 Slovak designation-of-origin registration (with its 2008 amendment), OCR text with some garbled characters. Wines are blends of varietal wines with an added specially made concentrated must; colours white, rosé and red, and still, semi-sparkling (perlivé) and sparkling. Varieties listed begin Aurelius, Bouvierovo hrozno, Devín, Dievčie hrozno, Feteasca regala, Chardonnay (21 white, 10 red including Alibernet, André, Cabernet Sauvignon and Frankovka modrá). Grapes need at least 16 °NM and the maximum yield is 14,000 kg/ha; free SO2 at most 40 mg/l after bottling. Sparkling wine: second fermentation in bottle or larger vessels without added CO2, so the method is not fixed; the base-wine figures (10-11 % vol, 6-8 g/l acids) are descriptive. Production, processing and preparation take place in the Malokarpatská wine area.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.