How this register is made

Source and licence

Every entry comes from OpenStreetMap. The data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and is available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0; the terms are set out at openstreetmap.org/copyright. This register is a database derived from it and is offered under the same licence. Its files are plain JSON: /wine/data/index.json lists the countries, and each country has its own file under /wine/data/c/.

The outlines of land under the marks are Natural Earth’s 1:50m data, which is in the public domain (terms of use), simplified for drawing.

The harvest

The harvest ran on 28 September 2026 through the public Overpass API, one country at a time, one query at a time, with a pause between queries. The list of countries is OpenStreetMap’s own: the 216 boundary relations that carry admin_level=2 and an ISO 3166-1 code. 216 of them answered; 111 hold at least one named entry. The data in the answers is dated between 2026-09-28 12:04:01 and 2026-09-28 16:58:01 UTC. There is no refresh job: the register is that one harvest, and it says so wherever it prints a count.

The query, for each country area:

nwr["craft"="winery"](area.a)->.w;
nwr["tourism"="wine_cellar"](area.a)->.c;
(nwr.w["name"]; nwr.c["name"];);
out center tags qt;

The same request counts, without fetching them, the objects tagged landuse=vineyard and the named objects tagged shop=wine.

From objects to venues

OpenStreetMap objects are not venues. A winery is often mapped twice, as a point and as the outline of its building, and sometimes as several buildings. The harvest returned 16,134 named objects. Two objects are taken to be the same venue when they carry the same name (compared without case, accents or punctuation) and lie within 250 metres of each other, or when the words of one name are all contained in the other’s and they lie within 75 metres. That rule merged 366 objects into others and left 15,768 venues: 15,490 wineries and 278 wine cellars. 327 of them stand on more than one object; each entry links to the object with the fullest tags.

OpenStreetMap’s country boundaries overlap in places. 7 entries lie inside more than one boundary and are listed under each of those countries, and counted once in the world total: Croatia and Slovenia (1); Russia and Ukraine (6).

What an entry holds

The name, the kind, the position (for an outline, its centre), the address tags, the website, the phone number, the opening hours, and the product, grape and wine:region tags where present. Of the 15,768 entries, 8,169 carry a website, 6,501 a phone number, 2,575 opening hours, 7,605 a street and 6,915 a place name; 177 carry a product tag and 8 a grape tag. Websites are shown only when they are well-formed web addresses. E-mail addresses are not kept.

What is left out

Objects without a name: the country areas hold 18,249 objects with one of the two tags, of which 16,143 carry a name. Wine shops: 20,633 named objects are tagged shop=wine in the same areas; a wine shop is not a winery, and they are not listed. Vineyards: 877,609 objects are tagged landuse=vineyard; they are land, not businesses, and appear only as a count on each country page. Places that lie inside no country boundary of the kind described above are not reached by the harvest.

Limits

The register counts what has been mapped, not what exists. Coverage follows the mappers: dense where many people map, thin elsewhere. A venue may have closed, moved or changed its name since it was mapped. The tags are shown as written, in the language and the spelling of whoever wrote them. Distances in the Near me list are straight lines, not roads. Nothing in this register is advice about drinking, travel or purchase.

How to correct an entry

Entries are not edited here. Follow the entry’s OpenStreetMap link, sign in there and correct the object, or add the winery that is missing, with the tag craft=winery and its name. The change is public at once on OpenStreetMap, and if this register is harvested again, the change comes with it. To ask about the register itself, write to labs@labs.llc.

What the page does with your position

Nothing, until you press Near me. Then your browser asks your permission and hands the page a position. The page sorts the entries by distance from it and draws a cross on the atlas. The position is not stored and is not sent to labs.llc or to any other site; the page then requests the register’s own data files for the countries of the nearest entries.

Where this register came from

It was built for erik.wine and published there from 28 September 2026. It lives here now, in labs.llc’s Cities room beside Yum and Padel: the same harvest, the same 15,768 entries and the same country and list pages, each at the same place under /wine/. Every address on erik.wine answers one permanent redirect to its page here.