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DOC · Appellation profile

Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera

61,107 haProduction zone
1Wine in the rules
20.6 °CGrowing season · hot
VWinkler region

What is made here

Wine colours

The only colour the rules allow.

100% Red

Where it is

Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera in Italy

Latitude
41.3°–41.6° N
Vineyard altitude
90 m to 199 m
Production zone
61,107 ha

Lies within
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.

01 · What the law says

The rules

Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera must meet.

1 wine in the rules.
WineMain grape(s)Max yield
t/ha		Max wine
hl/ha		Wine from grapes
max. %		Grape ripeness
min. % pot. alc.		Wine
min. % alc.		Acidity
min. g/l		Dry extract
min. g/l
Cacc'e Mmitte di Lucera 35% Uva di Troia14916511.511.54.520

From the official production rules (disciplinare di produzione). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Blend rules

Cacc'e Mmitte di Lucera

  • 35–60% Uva di Troia · Main grape
  • 25–35% Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Malvasia nera di Brindisi · Allowed
  • 15–30% Trebbiano toscano / Bombino bianco / Malvasia Bianca / Bianca Lunga · Allowed

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

4,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Permitted
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 20.6 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,258 growing degree days (Winkler V).

The average year  1991–2020, vineyards at about 147 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
6.5° 59 Jan 7.0° 52 Feb 9.7° 60 Mar 13.1° 60 Apr 18.1° 44 May 23.3° 33 Jun 25.9° 27 Jul 25.9° 24 Aug 20.9° 43 Sep 16.4° 51 Oct 11.7° 62 Nov 7.6° 65 Dec
Growing-season temperature
20.6 °C
Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days
2,258
Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
Growing-season rain
280 mm
Of 577 mm a year
Harvest rain
94 mm
September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 130 m; Vineyard point 2, 179 m; Vineyard point 3, 90 m; Vineyard point 4, 199 m; Vineyard point 5, 136 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. Rosso di CerignolaVery similarCompared with Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera: same season warmth, drier (−29 mm).
2. Vernaccia di OristanoVery similarCompared with Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Moscato di TraniVery similarCompared with Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera
20.6 °C
Rosso di Cerignola
20.6 °C
Vernaccia di Oristano
20.5 °C
Moscato di Trani
20.7 °C

Growing degree days

Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera
2,258
Rosso di Cerignola
2,272
Vernaccia di Oristano
2,243
Moscato di Trani
2,284

Growing-season rain

Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera
280 mm
Rosso di Cerignola
251 mm
Vernaccia di Oristano
263 mm
Moscato di Trani
288 mm

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, 94 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

  1. 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
  2. Quality wines in Italy and France: a dataset of PDO specifications · figshare 25393261 · CC BY 4.0
  3. ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
  4. OpenStreetMap vineyard areas (landuse=vineyard), from Geofabrik country extracts · OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
  5. Copernicus DEM GLO-90 (AWS open data tiles) · European Space Agency / Copernicus · Copernicus DEM licence
  6. Disciplinare di produzione: Cacc'e mmitte di Lucera · Ministero dell'agricoltura, della sovranità alimentare e delle foreste (MASAF) · Official act
  7. Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
  8. Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
  • Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
  • From the specification: Red only. In exceptional years the yield may exceed 14 t/ha by up to 20% provided the excess is removed by selection.
  • National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.