What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Casavecchia di Pontelatone in Italy
- Latitude
- 41.1°–41.3° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 51 m to 266 m
- Production zone
- 18,725 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.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Casavecchia di Pontelatone must meet.
Blend rules
Casavecchia di Pontelatone Rosso
- ≥ 85% Casavecchia n. · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic red grapes suitable for Campania · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Casavecchia di Pontelatone Rosso Riserva
- ≥ 85% Casavecchia n. · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic red grapes suitable for Campania · Others allowed
At least 36 months' ageing.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
22 varieties · Casavecchia di Pontelatone Rosso, Casavecchia di Pontelatone Rosso Riserva
Aglianico, Aglianicone, Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cesanese Comune, Ciliegiolo, Lambrusco Maestri, Malvasia, Merlot, Montepulciano, Olivella Nera, Pallagrello Nero, Piedirosso, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Sangiovese, Sciascinoso, Tintore, Tronto, Uva di Troia
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
non-horizontal forms only (new plantings)
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.4 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,003 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 141 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.4 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,003
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 533 mm
- Of 1,166 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 229 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 161 m; Vineyard point 2, 307 m; Vineyard point 3, 51 m; Vineyard point 4, 45 m; Vineyard point 5, 141 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 moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
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. RenoVery similarCompared with Casavecchia di Pontelatone: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Sjeverna DalmacijaVery similarCompared with Casavecchia di Pontelatone: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. AmeliaVery similarCompared with Casavecchia di Pontelatone: 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, 229 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: Casavecchia di Pontelatone · 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: Vinification, ageing and bottling may take place anywhere in the province of Caserta and in Amorosi (Benevento), so the in-zone requirement is left null. Enrichment is allowed for the Rosso only, not the Riserva.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.