What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Cilento in Italy
- Latitude
- 40.0°–40.5° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 19 m to 589 m
- Production zone
- 157,520 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 Cilento must meet.
Blend rules
Cilento Bianco
- 60–65% Fiano · Main grape
- 20–30% Trebbiano Toscano · Main grape
- 10–15% Greco bianco / Malvasia bianca · Allowed
- ≤ 10% other grapes suitable for the province of Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Cilento Fiano
- ≥ 85% Fiano · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes suitable for the province of Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Cilento Rosato
- 70–80% Sangiovese · Main grape
- 10–15% Aglianico · Allowed
- 10–15% Primitivo / Piedirosso · Allowed
- ≤ 10% other grapes suitable for the province of Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Cilentorosso
- 60–75% Aglianico · Main grape
- 15–20% Piedirosso / Primitivo · Allowed
- ≤ 25% other grapes suitable for the province of Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Cilento Aglianico
- ≥ 85% Aglianico · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other black grapes suitable for the province of Salerno · Others allowed
At least 12 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Cilento Aglianico riserva
- ≥ 85% Aglianico · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other black grapes suitable for the province of Salerno · 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.
15 varieties · Cilento Bianco
Asprinio Bianco, Biancolella, Bombino Bianco, Coda di Volpe Bianca, Falanghina, Fenile, Forastera, Ginestra, Greco, Malvasia Bianca, Montonico Bianco, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pepella, Ripolo, Verdeca
16 varieties · Cilento Fiano
Asprinio Bianco, Biancolella, Bombino Bianco, Coda di Volpe Bianca, Falanghina, Fenile, Forastera, Ginestra, Greco, Malvasia Bianca, Montonico Bianco, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pepella, Ripolo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdeca
12 varieties · Cilento Rosato
Aglianicone, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cesanese Comune, Malvasia, Merlot, Montepulciano, Pinot Noir, Sciascinoso, Tintore, Tronto
13 varieties · Cilentorosso
Aglianicone, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cesanese Comune, Malvasia, Merlot, Montepulciano, Pinot Noir, Sangiovese, Sciascinoso, Tintore, Tronto
15 varieties · Cilento Aglianico, Cilento Aglianico riserva
Aglianicone, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cesanese Comune, Malvasia, Merlot, Montepulciano, Piedirosso, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Sangiovese, Sciascinoso, Tintore, Tronto
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
450 m
Highest vineyard allowed
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.5 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,023 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 201 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.5 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,023
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 513 mm
- Of 1,259 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 228 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 229 m; Vineyard point 2, 5 m; Vineyard point 3, 373 m; Vineyard point 4, 386 m; Vineyard point 5, 10 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:The vineyards are on land too small for the reanalysis grid, so the nearest land cell (up to 17 km away) is used; island climates are usually milder than this. Monthly reanalysis in complex terrain (height corrections up to 2.2 °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. Colli della SabinaVery similarCompared with Cilento: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. RenoVery similarCompared with Cilento: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Lambrusco Salamino di Santa CroceVery similarCompared with Cilento: 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, 228 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: Cilento · 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 altitude limit is 550 m in the commune of Moio della Civitella; expanded horizontal-canopy training is prohibited. Operations may take place in the whole of communes partly inside the zone. The Aglianico riserva (three years, two in cask, from 1 January after the harvest) is defined in Art. 6 but not listed in the EU register.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.