What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Corse in France
- Latitude
- 41.3°–43.0° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 10 m to 195 m
- Delimited vineyard land
- 71,061 ha
Contains 1 appellation (outlined on the zone map)
Ajaccio
Worked out from the boundaries (smallest container first). Uses the delimited parcels where INAO publishes them.
The delimited vineyard parcels themselves, so the shape is patchy: only land within them may grow the wine. Boundary: INAO parcel delimitation (Licence Ouverte); nearby parcels drawn as one block, with less detail for larger appellations. 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 Corse must meet.
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Calvi
- ≥ 50% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo / morrastel · Allowed
; release from 1 January of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Coteaux du Cap Corse
- ≥ 60% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo · Allowed
; release from 1 January of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Porto-Vecchio
- ≥ 50% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo / morrastel · Allowed
; release from 1 January of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Sartène
- ≥ 50% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo / morrastel · Allowed
; release from 1 March of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Vin de Corse
- ≥ 50% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo / morrastel · Allowed
; release from 1 January of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Figari
- ≥ 50% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo / morrastel · Allowed
; release from 1 April of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Vin de Corse rosé
- ≥ 50% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo / morrastel · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Corse blanc
- ≥ 75% Vermentino · Main grape
- ≤ 25% Ugni Blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 10% biancu gentile / codivarta / genovèse · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Calvi rosé
- ≥ 50% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo / morrastel · Allowed
; release from 1 January of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Calvi blanc
- ≥ 75% Vermentino · Main grape
- ≤ 25% Ugni Blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 10% biancu gentile / codivarta / genovèse · Allowed
; release from 1 January of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Coteaux du Cap Corse rosé
- ≥ 60% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Coteaux du Cap Corse blanc
- ≥ 80% Vermentino · Main grape
- ≤ 20% codivarta / ugni blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 10% biancu gentile / genovèse · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Figari rosé
- ≥ 50% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo / morrastel · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Figari blanc
- ≥ 75% Vermentino · Main grape
- ≤ 25% Ugni Blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 10% biancu gentile / codivarta / genovèse · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Porto-Vecchio rosé
- ≥ 50% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo / morrastel · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Porto-Vecchio blanc
- ≥ 75% Vermentino · Main grape
- ≤ 25% Ugni Blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 10% biancu gentile / codivarta / genovèse · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Sartène rosé
- ≥ 50% grenache / nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- – nielluccio / sciaccarello · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 20% Vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% aléatico / carcajolo / morrastel · Allowed
Blend rules
Vin de Corse Sartène blanc
- ≥ 75% Vermentino · Main grape
- ≤ 25% Ugni Blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 10% biancu gentile / codivarta / genovèse · Allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
9 varieties · 22 wines
Aléatico, Barbaroux, Carcajolo, Carignan, Cinsaut, Morrastel, Mourvèdre, Syrah, Vermentino
8 varieties · Vin de Corse Coteaux du Cap Corse, Vin de Corse Coteaux du Cap Corse
Aléatico, Barbaroux, Carcajolo, Carignan, Cinsaut, Mourvèdre, Syrah, Vermentino
4 varieties · 6 wines
Biancu Gentile, Codivarta, Genovèse, Ugni Blanc
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
4,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
gobelet; cordon de Royat; taille Guyot simple ou double
Permitted
Irrigation
Not allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.2 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,181 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 72 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.2 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,181
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 320 mm
- Of 714 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 140 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 129 m; Vineyard point 2, 11 m; Vineyard point 3, 58 m; Vineyard point 4, 8 m; Vineyard point 5, 156 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.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in complex terrain (height corrections up to 3.2 °C); absolute values may be several degrees out, year-to-year changes are more reliable.
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. Gioia del ColleVery similarCompared with Corse: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. LocorotondoVery similarCompared with Corse: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Moscato di SorsoVery similarCompared with Corse: 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, 140 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
- Quality wines in Italy and France: a dataset of PDO specifications · figshare 25393261 · CC BY 4.0
- 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
- Cahier des charges: Corse (Cahier des charges modifié de l'AOC Corse ou Vin de Corse - BO n°50 du 12 décembre 2019) · Ministère de l'Agriculture (Bulletin officiel), as linked by INAO · Official act
- Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles de l'INAO · Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO), via data.gouv.fr · Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab)
- Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Each register name covers red, rosé and white wines, so the reds keep the register names and rosé/white are added with ' rosé'/' blanc'. Nielluccio plus sciaccarello must be at least one third of the vineyard (no figure recordable); all percentage limits apply to the holding's vineyard and the blend must follow the same proportions. Codivarta needs only 161 g/l sugar and barbaroux/cinsaut 153 g/l for reds (171 in Sartène) (not recorded: the figure sits alone on a line the checker strips). Residual sugar may reach 5 g/l above 14% natural alcohol; reds (and all Calvi wines) must be aged until 15 December of the harvest year (Figari reds to 15 March, Sartène reds to 15 February next year); other rosé/white release dates follow D. 645-17.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.