What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Colline Saluzzesi in Italy
- Latitude
- 44.4°–44.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 365 m to 567 m
- Production zone
- 40,862 ha
Lies within
Piemonte
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 Colline Saluzzesi must meet.
Blend rules
Colline Saluzzesi Rosso
- ≥ 60% Barbera / Chatus / Nebbiolo / Pelaverga · Main grape
- ≤ 40% other non-aromatic grapes of the same colour suitable for Piemonte · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
44 varieties · Colline Saluzzesi Rosso
Albarossa, Ancellotta, Avana', Avarengo, Becuet, Bonarda, Brachetto, Bragat Rosa, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Ciliegiolo, Cornarea, Croatina, Dolcetto, Doux d'Henry, Durasa, Freisa, Gamay, Gamba Rossa, Grignolino, Lambrusca di Alessandria, Malvasia Nera Lunga, Malvasia di Casorzo, Malvasia di Schierano, Merlot, Montanera, Moscato Nero di Acqui, Ner d'Ala, Neretta Cuneese, Neretto di Bairo, Passau, Pelaverga Piccolo, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Plassa, Quagliano, Ruche', Sangiovese, Slarina, Syrah, Teroldego, Uva Rara, Uvalino, Vespolina
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
750 m
Highest vineyard allowed
Training
Systems allowed
controspalliera con vegetazione assurgente
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Prohibited
Irrigation
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 15.8 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,260 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 523 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 15.8 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,260
- Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 1,069 mm
- Of 1,591 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 307 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 594 m; Vineyard point 2, 566 m; Vineyard point 3, 486 m; Vineyard point 4, 567 m; Vineyard point 5, 400 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. Valtellina rossoVery similarCompared with Colline Saluzzesi: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. PineroleseVery similarCompared with Colline Saluzzesi: −0.4 °C in the growing season, similar rain.
3. PiemonteVery similarCompared with Colline Saluzzesi: +0.5 °C in the growing season, 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, 307 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: Colline Saluzzesi · 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: Vinification may take place anywhere in the province of Cuneo; bottling and sparkling-wine making must be in Piemonte. Pelaverga may be secco or amabile, Pelaverga rosato secco or abboccato, and Quagliano 'amabile e gradevolmente dolce', so sweetness is left null for them. 'Vigna' wines need vines at least 7 years old; wine output in litres is left null.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.