What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Barletta in Italy
- Latitude
- 41.0°–41.4° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 5 m to 267 m
- Production zone
- 83,879 ha
Lies within
Moscato di Trani, Aleatico di Puglia
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 Barletta must meet.
Blend rules
Barletta Rosso
- ≥ 70% Uva di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
- ≤ 10% Malbek · Allowed
Blend rules
Barletta Rosato
- ≥ 70% Uva di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
Blend rules
Barletta Rosato Frizzante
- ≥ 70% Uva di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
Blend rules
Barletta Novello
- ≥ 70% Uva di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
- ≤ 10% Malbek · Allowed
Blend rules
Barletta Nero di Troia
- ≥ 90% Uva di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
Blend rules
Barletta Bianco
- ≥ 60% Malvasia Bianca · Main grape
- ≤ 40% other white grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
Blend rules
Barletta Bianco Frizzante
- ≥ 60% Malvasia Bianca · Main grape
- ≤ 40% other white grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
Blend rules
Barletta Malvasia Bianco
- ≥ 90% Malvasia Bianca · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other white grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
Blend rules
Barletta Malvasia Bianco Frizzante
- ≥ 90% Malvasia Bianca · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other white grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
Blend rules
Barletta Rosso riserva
- ≥ 70% Uva di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
- ≤ 10% Malbek · Allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Barletta Nero di Troia riserva
- ≥ 90% Uva di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia centrale · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
28 varieties · 7 wines
Aglianico, Aglianicone, Barbera, Bombino Nero, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calabrese, Lacrima, Lambrusco Maestri, Malbec, Malvasia Nera di Basilicata, Malvasia Nera di Brindisi, Malvasia Nera di Lecce, Merlot, Montepulciano, Negro Amaro, Negroamaro Precoce, Notardomenico, Ottavianello, Petit Verdot, Piedirosso, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sangiovese, Somarello Rosso, Susumaniello, Syrah
36 varieties · 4 wines
Antinello, Asprinio Bianco, Bianco d'Alessano, Biancolella, Bombino Bianco, Cococciola, Coda di Volpe Bianca, Falanghina, Fiano, Francavidda, Garganega, Greco, Greco Bianco, Grillo, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Manzoni Bianco, Marchione, Maresco, Minutolo, Montonico Bianco, Moscatello Selvatico, Mostosa, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pampanuto, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdeca, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.8 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,321 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 67 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.8 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,321
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 259 mm
- Of 548 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 104 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 51 m; Vineyard point 2, 5 m; Vineyard point 3, 267 m; Vineyard point 4, 7 m; Vineyard point 5, 5 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. ArboreaVery similarCompared with Barletta: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Monica di SardegnaVery similarCompared with Barletta: same season warmth, drier (−31 mm).
3. Contessa EntellinaVery similarCompared with Barletta: 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, 104 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: Barletta · 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 Nero di Troia type may also be labelled 'Uva di Troia'. The Rosso and Nero di Troia riserva types are added because the text sets their own natural and total alcohol and two years' ageing (one in wood). Novello grapes and natural alcohol follow the Rosso rules ('anche novello').
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.