About Open Wine Map

Reference map of wine appellations, generated automatically from public registers: the EU register of PDOs and PGIs, the national regulators, the Swiss federal repertoire of cantonal AOCs and the UK register of geographical indications.

Sources: INAO (INAO) for the French cahiers des charges and parcel boundaries, IGN (IGN) for French commune polygons, the EU geographical-indications register, the national regulators, Eurostat GISCO and Bétard 2022 for the other countries, OpenStreetMap and CARTO for the basemap, Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia.org) for a handful of narrative extracts (CC BY-SA 4.0), and VIVC (vivc.de), the Julius Kühn-Institut's Vitis International Variety Catalogue, for canonical grape names and variety numbers (citing Röckel et al.). Every Wikipedia excerpt is flagged where it appears. Full source list and licences in the README.

Part of the text is produced by language models: the terroir notes are extracted from the regulator's text by Claude, checked against the source by a second Claude model, then translated; the Wikipedia extracts in the grape and style tooltips are translated mostly by Mistral running locally, and some by Claude; the cahier summaries were translated by a human translator, with a small machine-translated remainder. Each item carries its own attribution line in the panel.

21 European countries mapped (2,953 entries: 1,672 appellations and 1,281 related denominations). Further iterations will refine data quality and extend coverage beyond the EU, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Issues and pull requests welcome on GitHub.

Browse the full list of appellations: All appellations.

Privacy: usage is measured with a self-hosted Plausible instance, which also receives the feedback sent from the cards. It processes no personal data and follows no individual visitor: no cookies, no persistent identifiers, no IP address stored, no cross-site or cross-device tracking — which is why there is no consent banner to click through.

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Data updated on 2026-09-18.