What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Asti in Italy
- Latitude
- 44.6°–44.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 195 m to 480 m
- Production zone
- 74,350 ha
Lies within
Piemonte
Contains 5 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Barbaresco, Brachetto d'Acqui, Calosso, Loazzolo, Strevi
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 Asti must meet.
Blend rules
Asti
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
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Asti Spumante
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
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Asti Metodo Classico
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
Blend rules
Asti Spumante Metodo Classico
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
Blend rules
Moscato d’Asti
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
Blend rules
Moscato d’Asti Vendemmia Tardiva
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
At least 12 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Moscato d’Asti Strevi
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
Blend rules
Moscato d’Asti Santa Vittoria d’Alba
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
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Moscato d’Asti Santa Vittoria d’Alba Vendemmia Tardiva
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Asti Spumante Santa Vittoria d’Alba
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
Blend rules
Asti Spumante Strevi
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
Blend rules
Asti Spumante Metodo Classico Santa Vittoria d’Alba
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
Blend rules
Asti Spumante Metodo Classico Strevi
- ≥ 97% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 3% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Piedmont · Others allowed
Blend rules
Asti Spumante Rosato
- 70–90% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- 10–30% Brachetto · Allowed
Blend rules
Asti Spumante Metodo Classico Rosato
- 70–90% Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- 10–30% Brachetto · Allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
19 varieties · 17 wines
Arneis, Baratuciat, Barbera Bianca, Bussanello, Cortese, Erbaluce, Favorita, Malvasia Moscata, Manzoni Bianco, Muller Thurgau, Nascetta, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Rossese Bianco, Sauvignon Blanc, Sylvaner, Timorasso, Viognier, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
4,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
controspalliera
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.9 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,698 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 261 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.9 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,698
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 607 mm
- Of 1,022 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 215 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 320 m; Vineyard point 2, 232 m; Vineyard point 3, 354 m; Vineyard point 4, 189 m; Vineyard point 5, 211 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. Côtes du VivaraisVery similarCompared with Asti: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Colli di ParmaVery similarCompared with Asti: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Cesanese di AffileVery similarCompared with Asti: 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, 215 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: Asti · 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: Asti and Asti Spumante are the same type; sweetness ranges from pas dosé to dolce, so it is null; tank-method Asti needs at least one month for the prise de mousse. The 10 t/ha yield is printed in a merged table cell (Brachetto 8 t/ha for the rosé, so the rosé grape yield is null); enrichment is prohibited for Moscato d'Asti Vendemmia Tardiva. Santa Vittoria d'Alba and Strevi values come from the subzone annexes. No rules for a Canelli subzone appear in this text (Canelli is now its own DOCG), so the two Canelli products are null. The rosé types are governed by the text but not in the register list.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.