What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Slovenská in Slovakia
The boundary for Slovenská is not on Vinous yet. It is added by the geography step of the data pipeline.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Slovenská must meet.
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Where the numbers come from
Sources
- eAmbrosia, the EU register of geographical indications (wine) · European Commission · Commission reuse policy
- Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, Article 93 (definitions of designation of origin and geographical indication) and Articles 92-123 · European Union · EU law
- Product specification: Slovenská (Specifikacia_Slovenska,-ske,sky.pdf) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
Still to check (3)
- Boundary not captured yet (PGIs are not in the Eurac boundary data).
- From the specification: Víno CHZO (PGI wine) and regionálne víno (regional wine) may be white, rosé or red; burčiak is partly fermented grape must with actual alcohol of at least 1 % and at most three-fifths of total alcohol, made only from 1 August to 31 December of the harvest year. Enrichment is limited to 3.4 kg/hl of must and to 12 % vol for white and 12.5 % vol for red wine. Varietal ('odrodové') wine is made from one variety with up to 15 % by weight of others; all registered varieties are allowed. Vine density is at most 12,000 vines/ha and bud load at most 120,000 buds/ha for víno CHZO and regional wine. Grapes, winemaking and bottling must all be in the Slovak wine-growing region.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.