Valdepeñas is a Spanish Denominación de Origen Protegida (DOP) for wines located in the province of Ciudad Real in the south of Castile-La Mancha (Spain). It is almost completely surrounded by another DOP but is an independent DOP due to its long history of producing a distinct style of wine known aloque or clarete which is made by mixing white and red grapes. 2016´s harvest is formed from 55.9 million kilograms of red grapes and 43.2 million kilograms of white grapes.
From the Wikipedia article Valdepeñas (DO), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Valdepeñas is an appellation in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. We track 16 of its wines in stock at 4 shops, from 0 wine houses, from € 3.25; mostly red, white, sparkling.
| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
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| 2026 | – | – | – | – | hotdryso far +2.7 °C · 2,496 GDD · 62 % rain |
| 2025 | – | – | – | – | hotdry harvest +2.1 °C · 2,616 GDD · 78 % rain |
| 2024 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.3 °C · 2,451 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 2023 | – | – | – | – | hotwet harvest +2.0 °C · 2,595 GDD · 106 % rain |
| 2022 | – | – | – | – | hotdry +2.2 °C · 2,633 GDD · 70 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Valdepeñas's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the appellation. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.
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| warm +0.8 °C · 2,339 GDD · 109 % rain |
| 2020 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.5 °C · 2,283 GDD · 100 % rain |
| 2019 | – | – | – | – | warmwet harvest +0.6 °C · 2,288 GDD · 118 % rain |
| 2018 | – | – | – | – | averagewet −0.4 °C · 2,084 GDD · 135 % rain |
| 2017 | – | – | – | – | hotdrydry harvest +1.9 °C · 2,577 GDD · 57 % rain |
| 2016 | – | – | – | – | warmdry harvest +0.9 °C · 2,351 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 2015 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.2 °C · 2,419 GDD · 71 % rain |
| 2014 | – | – | – | – | warmdry +0.8 °C · 2,333 GDD · 68 % rain |
| 2013 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.7 °C · 2,024 GDD · 91 % rain |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest +0.4 °C · 2,259 GDD · 120 % rain |
| 2011 | – | – | – | – | warmdry harvest +0.8 °C · 2,340 GDD · 83 % rain |
| 2010 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 2,023 GDD · 125 % rain |
| 2009 | – | – | – | – | warmdry +0.6 °C · 2,300 GDD · 69 % rain |
| 2008 | – | – | – | – | coolwet −0.9 °C · 1,980 GDD · 178 % rain |
| 2007 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.7 °C · 2,006 GDD · 128 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.2 °C · 2,420 GDD · 92 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | warmdry +0.9 °C · 2,367 GDD · 64 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.2 °C · 2,125 GDD · 114 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.7 °C · 2,320 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.5 °C · 2,053 GDD · 88 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | average +0.2 °C · 2,198 GDD · 89 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 2,090 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.5 °C · 2,278 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.1 °C · 1,947 GDD · 96 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | coldwetwet harvest −1.0 °C · 1,948 GDD · 150 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | coldwet harvest −1.8 °C · 1,787 GDD · 124 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest ±0.0 °C · 2,167 GDD · 40 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest ±0.0 °C · 2,164 GDD · 55 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | cold −2.0 °C · 1,748 GDD · 118 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | coldwet −1.6 °C · 1,831 GDD · 158 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.5 °C · 2,050 GDD · 96 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 2,154 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 2,138 GDD · 102 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.7 °C · 2,027 GDD · 125 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest +0.1 °C · 2,192 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.5 °C · 2,114 GDD · 110 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest +0.4 °C · 2,249 GDD · 56 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | colddry harvest −1.3 °C · 1,895 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | cooldrydry harvest −0.5 °C · 2,057 GDD · 63 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.8 °C · 1,983 GDD · 88 % rain |