Calabria · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Calabria in Italy

The protected area is the whole administrative region, so its official outline is used. Boundary: Eurostat NUTS 2021 regions (© EuroGeographics). 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 Calabria must meet.

15 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Wine from grapes max. %	Grape ripeness min. % pot. alc.	Wine min. % alc.	Acidity min. g/l	Dry extract min. g/l
Calabria Bianco	–	19	80	10	10.5	5	14
Calabria Bianco frizzante	–	19	80	–	10	–	–
Calabria Bianco passito	–	19	50	11	14	4.5	24
Calabria Bianco spumante	–	19	80	9.5	11	5	15
Calabria Rosso	–	18	80	10.5	11	4.5	18
Calabria Rosso frizzante	–	18	80	–	10.5	–	–
Calabria Rosso passito	–	18	50	11	14	4.5	25
Calabria Rosso novello	–	18	80	10.5	11	4.5	18
Calabria Rosso spumante	–	18	80	9.5	11	4.5	16
Calabria Rosato	–	18	80	10.5	10.5	5	16
Calabria Rosato frizzante	–	18	80	–	10.5	–	–
Calabria Rosato spumante	–	18	80	9.5	11	5	15
Calabria varietale bianco	85% named variety (white)	19	80	10	10.5	5	14
Calabria varietale rosso	85% named variety (red)	18	80	10.5	11	4.5	18
Calabria varietale rosato	85% named variety (rose)	18	80	10.5	10.5	5	16

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

Calabria varietale bianco

≥ 85% named variety (white) · Main grape
≤ 15% other varieties of the same colour suitable for Calabria · Others allowed

Blend rules

Calabria varietale rosso

≥ 85% named variety (red) · Main grape
≤ 15% other varieties of the same colour suitable for Calabria · Others allowed

Blend rules

Calabria varietale rosato

≥ 85% named variety (rose) · Main grape
≤ 15% other varieties of the same colour suitable for Calabria · Others allowed

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

Cellar

Where the wine must be made

Within the production zone

02 · Where the numbers come from

Sources

eAmbrosia, the EU register of geographical indications (wine) · European Commission · Commission reuse policy
Legge 12 dicembre 2016, n. 238 (Testo unico della vite e del vino), Articles 3, 28 and 33 · Repubblica Italiana · Official act
NUTS 2021 regions, 1:10 million (GISCO) · Eurostat; © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries · Eurostat GISCO terms (attribution)
Disciplinare di produzione: Calabria · Ministero dell'agricoltura, della sovranità alimentare e delle foreste (MASAF) · Official act

Still to check (3)

Same area as its administrative region; the boundary is the region's outline.
From the specification: Varietal wines ('varietale' products) may name any variety suitable for Calabria and take the limits of the wine of the same colour; white varietals may also be frizzante, passito and spumante, black-grape ones rosso (frizzante, passito, novello) or rosato (frizzante, spumante). Passito grapes are dried on the vine or after harvest until the wine reaches 14% vol natural alcohol (Art. 4 gives 11% vol for the grapes). Frizzante and vivace grapes may have 0.5% vol less natural alcohol; vivace wines need 10.5% vol total. Spumante ranges from extra brut to dry. Rosso spumante appears only in Art. 6. Vinification within the Calabria region, which is the production zone.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.