What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Cerveteri in Italy
- Latitude
- 41.7°–42.4° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 17 m to 291 m
- Production zone
- 210,811 ha
Lies within
Tarquinia
Contains 4 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Cannellino di Frascati, Frascati, Frascati Superiore, Marino
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 Cerveteri must meet.
Blend rules
Cerveteri Bianco
- ≥ 50% Trebbiano Toscano · Main grape
- ≤ 35% Malvasia di Candia · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other white grapes authorised in Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Cerveteri Bianco Amabile
- ≥ 50% Trebbiano Toscano · Main grape
- ≤ 35% Malvasia di Candia · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other white grapes authorised in Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Cerveteri bianco frizzante
- ≥ 50% Trebbiano Toscano · Main grape
- ≤ 35% Malvasia di Candia · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other white grapes authorised in Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Cerveteri rosso
- ≥ 60% Sangiovese / Montepulciano · Main grape
- ≤ 35% Merlot · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other red grapes authorised in Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Cerveteri rosso amabile
- ≥ 60% Sangiovese / Montepulciano · Main grape
- ≤ 35% Merlot · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other red grapes authorised in Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Cerveteri Trebbiano o Procanico
- ≥ 85% Trebbiano Toscano · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white grapes authorised in Lazio · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
38 varieties · 4 wines
Bellone, Biancolella, Bombino Bianco, Canaiolo Bianco, Capolongo, Falanghina, Fiano, Forastera, Friulano, Grechetto, Greco, Greco Bianco, Guarnaccia, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia del Lazio, Manzoni Bianco, Maturano, Montonico Bianco, Moscato Giallo, Moscato di Terracina, Mostosa, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pampanaro, Passerina, Pecorino, Petit Manseng, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano di Soave, Verdello, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Vernaccia di S. Giminiano, Viognier, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,300
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
controspalliera
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 20.0 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,137 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 94 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.0 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,137
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 431 mm
- Of 918 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 214 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 97 m; Vineyard point 2, 273 m; Vineyard point 3, 26 m; Vineyard point 4, 40 m; Vineyard point 5, 34 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. Clairette de BellegardeVery similarCompared with Cerveteri: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. VesuvioVery similarCompared with Cerveteri: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. SuveretoVery similarCompared with Cerveteri: 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, 214 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: Cerveteri · 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 register lists only Bianco and Bianco Amabile; the other types governed by the text are added. Art. 2 gives no grape composition for rosato, and yields and natural alcohol are set only for white and red grapes, so those rosato fields are null. Bianco frizzante ranges 'dal secco all'abboccato'. Enrichment only with products from the appellation's own vineyards (rectified concentrated must excluded); winemaking also allowed in Tarquinia.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.