What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Aprilia in Italy
- Latitude
- 41.4°–41.7° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 12 m to 137 m
- Production zone
- 67,017 ha
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 Aprilia must meet.
Blend rules
Bianco di Aprilia
- ≥ 50% Trebbiano Toscano · Main grape
- 5–35% Chardonnay · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other white grapes authorised in Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Rosso di Aprilia
- ≥ 50% Sangiovese · Main grape
- 5–25% Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed
- 5–25% Merlot · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other red grapes authorised in Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Rosato di Aprilia
- ≥ 50% Sangiovese · Main grape
- 5–25% Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed
- 5–25% Merlot · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other red grapes authorised in Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Merlot di Aprilia
- ≥ 85% Merlot · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other red grapes authorised in Lazio · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
39 varieties · Bianco di Aprilia
Bellone, Biancolella, Bombino Bianco, Canaiolo Bianco, Capolongo, Falanghina, Fiano, Forastera, Friulano, Grechetto, Greco, Greco Bianco, Guarnaccia, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Malvasia del Lazio, Manzoni Bianco, Maturano, Montonico Bianco, Moscato Giallo, Moscato di Terracina, Mostosa, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pampanaro, Passerina, Pecorino, Petit Manseng, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano di Soave, Verdello, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Vernaccia di S. Giminiano, Viognier, Welschriesling
28 varieties · Rosso di Aprilia, Rosato di Aprilia
Abbuoto, Aglianico, Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Bombino Nero, Cabernet Franc, Calabrese, Canaiolo Nero, Carignan, Cesanese Comune, Cesanese D Affile, Cesenese Nero, Ciliegiolo, Grechetto Rosso, Lambrusco Maestri, Lecinaro, Montepulciano, Nero Buono, Olivella Nera, Petit Verdot, Piedirosso, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Sciascinoso, Syrah, Tannat, Tempranillo
30 varieties · Merlot di Aprilia
Abbuoto, Aglianico, Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Bombino Nero, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calabrese, Canaiolo Nero, Carignan, Cesanese Comune, Cesanese D Affile, Cesenese Nero, Ciliegiolo, Grechetto Rosso, Lambrusco Maestri, Lecinaro, Montepulciano, Nero Buono, Olivella Nera, Petit Verdot, Piedirosso, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Sangiovese, Sciascinoso, Syrah, Tannat, Tempranillo
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.2 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,176 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 61 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.2 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,176
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 457 mm
- Of 1,001 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 227 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 25 m; Vineyard point 2, 10 m; Vineyard point 3, 81 m; Vineyard point 4, 51 m; Vineyard point 5, 138 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 moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
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. Bosco EliceoVery similarCompared with Aprilia: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. IschiaVery similarCompared with Aprilia: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Campi FlegreiVery similarCompared with Aprilia: 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, 227 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: Aprilia · Ministero dell'agricoltura, della sovranità alimentare e delle foreste (MASAF) · Official act
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Density applies to new plantings and replantings.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.