What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Bosco Eliceo in Italy
- Latitude
- 44.2°–45.0° N
- Vineyard altitude
- up to 7 m
- Production zone
- 164,967 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 Bosco Eliceo must meet.
Blend rules
Bosco Eliceo Fortana
- ≥ 85% Fortana · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
Blend rules
Bosco Eliceo Fortana Vivace
- ≥ 85% Fortana · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
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Bosco Eliceo Fortana Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Fortana · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
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Bosco Eliceo Merlot
- ≥ 85% Merlot · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
Blend rules
Bosco Eliceo Merlot Vivace
- ≥ 85% Merlot · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
Blend rules
Bosco Eliceo Bianco
- ≥ 70% Trebbiano Romagnolo · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Sauvignon / Malvasia bianca di Candia · Allowed
- ≤ 5% other white grapes authorised for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
Blend rules
Bosco Eliceo Bianco Frizzante
- ≥ 70% Trebbiano Romagnolo · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Sauvignon / Malvasia bianca di Candia · Allowed
- ≤ 5% other white grapes authorised for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
Blend rules
Bosco Eliceo Sauvignon
- ≥ 85% Sauvignon Blanc · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Trebbiano Romagnolo · Allowed
Blend rules
Bosco Eliceo Sauvignon Vivace
- ≥ 85% Sauvignon Blanc · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Trebbiano Romagnolo · Allowed
Blend rules
Bosco Eliceo Sauvignon Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Sauvignon Blanc · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Trebbiano Romagnolo · Allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
49 varieties · Bosco Eliceo Fortana, Bosco Eliceo Fortana Vivace, Bosco Eliceo Fortana Frizzante
Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Bonarda, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Canina Nera, Carmenere, Centesimino, Ciliegiolo, Croatina, Dolcetto, Ervi, Fogarina, Gamay, Groppello Gentile, Lambrusco Barghi, Lambrusco Benetti, Lambrusco Grasparossa, Lambrusco Maestri, Lambrusco Marani, Lambrusco Montericco, Lambrusco Oliva, Lambrusco Salamino, Lambrusco Viadanese, Lambrusco a Foglia Frastagliata, Lambrusco di Sorbara, Malbo Gentile, Marzemino, Merlese, Merlot, Montepulciano, Negretto, Perla dei Vivi, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Raboso Veronese, Rebo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sangiovese, Sgavetta, Syrah, Termarina, Terrano, Uva Longanesi, Uva Tosca, Uva del Fantini, Uva del Tunde', Veruccese
49 varieties · Bosco Eliceo Merlot, Bosco Eliceo Merlot Vivace
Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Bonarda, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Canina Nera, Carmenere, Centesimino, Ciliegiolo, Croatina, Dolcetto, Ervi, Fogarina, Fortana, Gamay, Groppello Gentile, Lambrusco Barghi, Lambrusco Benetti, Lambrusco Grasparossa, Lambrusco Maestri, Lambrusco Marani, Lambrusco Montericco, Lambrusco Oliva, Lambrusco Salamino, Lambrusco Viadanese, Lambrusco a Foglia Frastagliata, Lambrusco di Sorbara, Malbo Gentile, Marzemino, Merlese, Montepulciano, Negretto, Perla dei Vivi, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Raboso Veronese, Rebo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sangiovese, Sgavetta, Syrah, Termarina, Terrano, Uva Longanesi, Uva Tosca, Uva del Fantini, Uva del Tunde', Veruccese
34 varieties · Bosco Eliceo Bianco, Bosco Eliceo Bianco Frizzante
Albana, Alionza, Bervedino, Biancame, Bombino Bianco, Durella, Famoso, Fiano, Friulano, Garganega, Malvasia Istriana, Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Manzoni Bianco, Marsanne, Melara, Montu', Mostosa, Muller Thurgau, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Ortrugo, Pignoletto, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Ruggine, Santa Maria, Semillon, Spergola, Trebbianina, Trebbiano Modenese, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdea, Verdicchio Bianco, Vernaccina, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.2 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,173 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 2 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.2 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,173
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 460 mm
- Of 775 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 155 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 6 m; Vineyard point 2, -3 m; Vineyard point 3, 7 m; Vineyard point 4, 1 m; Vineyard point 5, 1 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. ApriliaVery similarCompared with Bosco Eliceo: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. IschiaVery similarCompared with Bosco Eliceo: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. CirceoVery similarCompared with Bosco Eliceo: 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, 155 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: Bosco Eliceo · 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: Each wine may be made in several sweetness styles (secco to dolce), so sweetness is left null; frizzante types give residual sugar bands per style. Frizzante and vivace wines must be made by natural fermentation; vinification is also allowed anywhere in the provinces of Ferrara and Ravenna, and frizzantatura by derogation in Emilia-Romagna and Veneto. Vineyards must be on mainly sandy soils.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.