What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Campidano di Terralba in Italy
- Latitude
- 39.4°–39.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 2 m to 37 m
- Production zone
- 124,672 ha
Lies within
Girò di Cagliari, Nasco di Cagliari, Cagliari, Nuragus di Cagliari, Moscato di Sardegna, Monica di Sardegna, Vermentino di Sardegna, Sardegna Semidano
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 Campidano di Terralba must meet.
Blend rules
Campidano di Terralba/Terralba Bovale
- ≥ 85% Bovale / Bovale grande · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other black grapes authorised in Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 31 March after the harvest year.
Blend rules
Campidano di Terralba/Terralba Bovale Riserva
- ≥ 85% Bovale / Bovale grande · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other black grapes authorised in Sardegna · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Campidano di Terralba/Terralba Bovale Superiore
- ≥ 85% Bovale / Bovale grande · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other black grapes authorised in Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 31 March after the harvest year.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
46 varieties · Campidano di Terralba/Terralba Bovale, Campidano di Terralba/Terralba Bovale Riserva, Campidano di Terralba/Terralba Bovale Superiore
Aglianico, Albaranzeuli Nero, Alicante, Alicante Bouschet, Ancellotta, Barbera, Barbera Sarda, Bombino Nero, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Caddiu, Cagnulari, Calabrese, Canaiolo Nero, Caricagiola, Carignan, Croatina, Dolcetto, Fiudedda, Gaglioppo, Giro', Gregu Nieddu, Grenache, Malbec, Malvasia, Marzemino, Medrulinu, Merlot, Monica, Montepulciano, Nebbiolo, Nera del Ponte, Niedda Carta, Nieddera, Nieddu Mannu, Nigheddu Polchinu, Pascale, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Procu Nieddu, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Saluda e Passa, Sangiovese, Syrah, Teroldego, Tocai Rosso
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
400 m
Highest vineyard allowed
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.6 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,271 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 43 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.6 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,271
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 247 mm
- Of 616 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 102 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 8 m; Vineyard point 2, 119 m; Vineyard point 3, 8 m; Vineyard point 4, 12 m; Vineyard point 5, 69 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. AlentejoVery similarCompared with Campidano di Terralba: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Rosso di CerignolaVery similarCompared with Campidano di Terralba: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Sardegna SemidanoVery similarCompared with Campidano di Terralba: 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, 102 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: Campidano di Terralba · 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: Superiore and Riserva must be bottled within the production zone.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.