What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Cannonau di Sardegna in Italy
- Latitude
- 39.5°–40.7° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 14 m to 711 m
- Production zone
- 579,033 ha
Lies within
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.
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 Cannonau di Sardegna must meet.
Blend rules
Cannonau di Sardegna Rosso
- ≥ 85% Grenache · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black grapes suitable for Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 1 April of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Cannonau di Sardegna Rosato
- ≥ 85% Grenache · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black grapes suitable for Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 1 January of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Cannonau di Sardegna Rosso Riserva
- ≥ 85% Grenache · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black grapes suitable for Sardegna · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Cannonau di Sardegna Passito
- ≥ 85% Grenache · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black grapes suitable for Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 1 November of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Cannonau di Sardegna Liquoroso
- ≥ 85% Grenache · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black grapes suitable for Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 1 November of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Cannonau di Sardegna Classico
- ≥ 90% Grenache · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other non-aromatic black grapes suitable for Sardegna · 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.
47 varieties · 6 wines
Aglianico, Albaranzeuli Nero, Alicante, Alicante Bouschet, Ancellotta, Barbera, Barbera Sarda, Bombino Nero, Bovale, Bovale Grande, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Caddiu, Cagnulari, Calabrese, Canaiolo Nero, Caricagiola, Carignan, Croatina, Dolcetto, Fiudedda, Gaglioppo, Girò, Gregu Nieddu, 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
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Emergency only
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.3 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,201 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 273 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.3 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,201
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 281 mm
- Of 619 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 114 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 48 m; Vineyard point 2, 123 m; Vineyard point 3, 534 m; Vineyard point 4, 32 m; Vineyard point 5, 627 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.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in complex terrain (height corrections up to 2.1 °C); absolute values may be several degrees out, year-to-year changes are more reliable.
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. Dominio de ValdepusaVery similarCompared with Cannonau di Sardegna: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Moscato di SorsoVery similarCompared with Cannonau di Sardegna: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Μοσχάτος ΚεφαλληνίαςVery similarCompared with Cannonau di Sardegna: same season warmth, drier (−33 mm).
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, 114 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: Cannonau di Sardegna · 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 tendone training system is prohibited. Liquoroso comes as secco (min 18,00% actual alcohol, max 10,0 g/l sugar) or dolce (min 16,00%, min 50,0 g/l sugar), so those values are left null. Enrichment is only by must concentration of up to 1 degree in poor years set by regional decree. Ageing and bottling must take place in Sardegna (within the subzone for Oliena/Nepente di Oliena, Jerzu and Capo Ferrato); 'classico' is limited to Nuoro and Ogliastra provinces.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.