What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Aversa in Italy
- Latitude
- 40.9°–41.0° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 13 m to 89 m
- Production zone
- 30,660 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 Aversa must meet.
Blend rules
Aversa Asprinio
- ≥ 85% Asprinio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes suitable for Caserta and Napoli · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
21 varieties · Aversa Asprinio, Aversa Asprinio Spumante
Bellone, Biancolella, Bombino Bianco, Caprettone, Catalanesca, Coda di Volpe Bianca, Falanghina, Fiano, Forastera, Greco, Montonico Bianco, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pallagrello Bianco, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, S. Lunardo, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Toscano, Veltliner, Verdeca, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
controspalliera; alberata aversana
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.4 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,217 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 56 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.4 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,217
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 436 mm
- Of 1,092 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 230 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 83 m; Vineyard point 2, 89 m; Vineyard point 3, 31 m; Vineyard point 4, 66 m; Vineyard point 5, 13 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. CirceoVery similarCompared with Aversa: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. NettunoVery similarCompared with Aversa: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ΝάουσαVery similarCompared with Aversa: 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, 230 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: Aversa · 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: The 12 t/ha limit applies to controspalliera vineyards; traditional alberata aversana vines are limited to 4 kg per square metre of canopy and 240 kg per vine (max 50 vines/ha), and their grapes need only 9.5% natural alcohol. The ministry may allow vinification in the provinces of Caserta, Napoli and Benevento for established producers; the sparkling method is not specified.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.