What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Capri in Italy
- Latitude
- 40.5°–40.6° N
- Production zone
- 1,037 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 Capri must meet.
Blend rules
Capri Rosso
- ≥ 80% Piedirosso · Main grape
- ≤ 20% other black grapes suitable for the province of Napoli · Others allowed
Blend rules
Capri Bianco
- ≥ 80% Falanghina / Greco · Main grape
- ≥ 50% Falanghina · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Biancolella · Allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
13 varieties · Capri Rosso
Aglianico, Aglianicone, Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Montepulciano, Olivella Nera, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Sangiovese, Sciascinoso
1 varieties · Capri Bianco
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.1 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,739 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 444 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.1 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,739
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 455 mm
- Of 1,209 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 235 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 444 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:No vineyards are mapped here yet, so this is the climate at one point in the middle of the zone, which may not be where the vines are. The vineyards are on land too small for the reanalysis grid, so the nearest land cell (up to 28 km away) is used; island climates are usually milder than this. Monthly reanalysis in complex terrain (height corrections up to 1.4 °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. SannioVery similarCompared with Capri: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. CéronsVery similarCompared with Capri: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. RasteauVery similarCompared with Capri: 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, 235 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)
- Disciplinare di produzione: Capri · 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: The ministry may allow producers who made these wines before 1971 to vinify elsewhere in the province of Napoli.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.