What is made here
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Where it is
Colli Maceratesi in Italy
- Latitude
- 42.8°–43.5° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 90 m to 514 m
- Production zone
- 279,118 ha
Contains 4 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
I Terreni di Sanseverino, San Ginesio, Serrapetrona, Vernaccia di Serrapetrona
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 Colli Maceratesi must meet.
Blend rules
Colli Maceratesi Bianco
- ≥ 70% Maceratino (Ribona) · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Incrocio Bruni 54 / Pecorino / Trebbiano toscano / Verdicchio / Chardonnay / Sauvignon / Malvasia bianca lunga / Grechetto · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other white grapes suitable in the Marche · Others allowed
Blend rules
Colli Maceratesi Bianco Passito
- ≥ 70% Maceratino (Ribona) · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Incrocio Bruni 54 / Pecorino / Trebbiano toscano / Verdicchio / Chardonnay / Sauvignon / Malvasia bianca lunga / Grechetto · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other white grapes suitable in the Marche · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Colli Maceratesi Bianco Spumante
- ≥ 70% Maceratino (Ribona) · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Incrocio Bruni 54 / Pecorino / Trebbiano toscano / Verdicchio / Chardonnay / Sauvignon / Malvasia bianca lunga / Grechetto · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other white grapes suitable in the Marche · Others allowed
Blend rules
Colli Maceratesi Ribona
- ≥ 85% Maceratino (Ribona) · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white grapes suitable in the Marche · Others allowed
Blend rules
Colli Maceratesi Ribona Passito
- ≥ 85% Maceratino (Ribona) · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white grapes suitable in the Marche · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Colli Maceratesi Ribona Spumante
- ≥ 85% Maceratino (Ribona) · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white grapes suitable in the Marche · Others allowed
Blend rules
Colli Maceratesi Rosso
- ≥ 50% Sangiovese · Main grape
- ≤ 50% Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon / Ciliegiolo / Lacrima / Merlot / Montepulciano / Vernaccia nera · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black grapes suitable in the Marche · Others allowed
Blend rules
Colli Maceratesi Rosso Novello
- ≥ 50% Sangiovese · Main grape
- ≤ 50% Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon / Ciliegiolo / Lacrima / Merlot / Montepulciano / Vernaccia nera · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black grapes suitable in the Marche · Others allowed
Blend rules
Colli Maceratesi Rosso Riserva
- ≥ 50% Sangiovese · Main grape
- ≤ 50% Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon / Ciliegiolo / Lacrima / Merlot / Montepulciano / Vernaccia nera · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black grapes suitable in the Marche · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Colli Maceratesi Sangiovese
- ≥ 85% Sangiovese · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black grapes suitable in the Marche · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
18 varieties · Colli Maceratesi Bianco, Colli Maceratesi Bianco Passito, Colli Maceratesi Bianco Spumante
Albana, Biancame, Bombino Bianco, Famoso, Fiano, Friulano, Garganega, Garofanata, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Manzoni Bianco, Montonico Bianco, Mostosa, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Passerina, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Vermentino, Welschriesling
25 varieties · 5 wines
Albana, Biancame, Bombino Bianco, Famoso, Fiano, Friulano, Garganega, Garofanata, Grechetto, Incrocio Bruni 54, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Manzoni Bianco, Montonico Bianco, Mostosa, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Passerina, Pecorino, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Welschriesling
19 varieties · Colli Maceratesi Rosso, Colli Maceratesi Rosso Novello, Colli Maceratesi Rosso Riserva
Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Canaiolo Nero, Carignan, Colorino, Foglia Tonda, Gaglioppo, Maiolica, Malbo Gentile, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Rebo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sagrantino, Syrah, Teroldego, Terrano, Vernaccia Nera Grossa
26 varieties · Colli Maceratesi Sangiovese
Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Canaiolo Nero, Carignan, Ciliegiolo, Colorino, Foglia Tonda, Gaglioppo, Lacrima, Maiolica, Malbo Gentile, Merlot, Montepulciano, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Rebo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sagrantino, Syrah, Teroldego, Terrano, Vernaccia Nera, Vernaccia Nera Grossa
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,200
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
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.4 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,806 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 320 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.4 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,806
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 476 mm
- Of 856 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 144 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 235 m; Vineyard point 2, 554 m; Vineyard point 3, 8 m; Vineyard point 4, 514 m; Vineyard point 5, 288 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. Valdichiana toscanaVery similarCompared with Colli Maceratesi: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. АсеновградVery similarCompared with Colli Maceratesi: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Val d'ArbiaVery similarCompared with Colli Maceratesi: 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, 144 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: Colli Maceratesi · 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: Rosso Novello is in the register but not governed by the current text, so all its values are null. Passito grapes must be dried to at least 15.5% vol potential alcohol; passito volatile acidity up to 25 meq/l. Bianco and Ribona Spumante need natural refermentation (method not specified) and at least 6 months' elaboration; Ribona Spumante Riserva needs at least 36 months' elaboration and is dosaggio zero to brut, as is Ribona Spumante. The ageing table row for Ribona Riserva has no legible figures, so its ageing is not recorded.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.