What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Aleatico di Puglia in Italy
- Latitude
- 39.8°–42.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 21 m to 238 m
- Production zone
- 1,935,371 ha
Contains 31 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Alezio, Barletta, Brindisi, Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera, Castel del Monte, Castel del Monte Bombino Nero, Castel del Monte Nero di Troia Riserva, Castel del Monte Rosso Riserva, Colline Joniche Tarantine, Copertino, Galatina, Gioia del Colle, Gravina, Leverano, Lizzano, Locorotondo, Martina, Matino, Moscato di Trani, Nardò, Negroamaro di Terra d'Otranto, Orta Nova, Ostuni, Primitivo di Manduria, Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale, Rosso di Cerignola, Salice Salentino, San Severo, Squinzano, Tavoliere delle Puglie, Terra d'Otranto
Worked out from the boundaries (smallest container first). They follow whole communes, so a neighbour sharing a commune can show up here too.
Boundary drawn from whole communes, so it is a little larger than the legal zone. Boundary: Eurac Research PDO inventory (CC0). 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 Aleatico di Puglia must meet.
Blend rules
Aleatico di Puglia Docle Naturale
- ≥ 85% Aléatico · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Negro amaro / Malvasia nera / Primitivo · Allowed
Blend rules
Aleatico di Puglia Liquoroso Dolce Naturale
- ≥ 85% Aléatico · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Negro amaro / Malvasia nera / Primitivo · Allowed
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Prohibited
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.8 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,316 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 148 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.8 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,316
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 305 mm
- Of 645 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 133 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 231 m; Vineyard point 2, 62 m; Vineyard point 3, 315 m; Vineyard point 4, 59 m; Vineyard point 5, 72 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.
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. San SeveroVery similarCompared with Aleatico di Puglia: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. ΠάτραVery similarCompared with Aleatico di Puglia: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Tavoliere delle PuglieVery similarCompared with Aleatico di Puglia: 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, 133 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
- Disciplinare di produzione: Aleatico di Puglia · Ministero dell'agricoltura, della sovranità alimentare e delle foreste (MASAF) · Official act
- 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: The register spells the first type 'Docle Naturale' (sic). Dolce Naturale is described as 'moderatamente dolce'. Vinification may take place anywhere in the provinces of Bari, Foggia, Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto; light drying of the grapes on the vine or on mats is allowed (no minimum period); correction with concentrate and any concentration other than cold concentration are excluded.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.