What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Costa d'Amalfi in Italy
- Latitude
- 40.6°–40.7° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 313 m to 509 m
- Production zone
- 9,998 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 Costa d'Amalfi must meet.
Blend rules
Costa d’Amalfi Bianco
- ≥ 40% Falanghina / Biancolella · Main grape
- ≤ 60% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised for Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Costa d’Amalfi Passito Bianco
- ≥ 40% Falanghina / Biancolella · Main grape
- ≤ 60% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised for Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Costa d’Amalfi Furore Bianco
- ≥ 40% Falanghina / Biancolella · Main grape
- ≥ 30% Falanghina · Main grape
- ≥ 10% Biancolella · Main grape
- 40–60% Pepella / Ripoli / Fenile / Ginestra · Allowed
- ≤ 20% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised for Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Costa d’Amalfi Rosso
- ≥ 40% Piedirosso · Main grape
- ≤ 60% Sciascinoso / Aglianico · Allowed
- ≤ 40% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Costa d’Amalfi Rosato
- ≥ 40% Piedirosso · Main grape
- ≤ 60% Sciascinoso / Aglianico · Allowed
- ≤ 40% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Costa d’Amalfi Passito Rosso
- ≥ 40% Piedirosso · Main grape
- ≤ 60% Sciascinoso / Aglianico · Allowed
- ≤ 40% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Costa d’Amalfi Tramonti Rosso
- ≥ 30% Piedirosso · Main grape
- ≤ 50% Sciascinoso / Aglianico · Allowed
- ≥ 20% Tintore · Allowed
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Costa d’Amalfi Tramonti Rosato
- ≥ 30% Piedirosso · Main grape
- ≤ 50% Sciascinoso / Aglianico · Allowed
- ≥ 20% Tintore · Allowed
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Salerno · Others allowed
Blend rules
Costa d’Amalfi Spumante
- ≥ 40% Falanghina / Biancolella · Main grape
- ≤ 60% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised for Salerno · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Costa d’Amalfi Tramonti Rosso Riserva
- ≥ 30% Piedirosso · Main grape
- ≤ 50% Sciascinoso / Aglianico · Allowed
- ≥ 20% Tintore · Allowed
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Salerno · Others allowed
At least 24 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 · 5 wines
Asprinio Bianco, Bombino Bianco, Coda di Volpe Bianca, Fenile, Fiano, Forastera, Ginestra, Greco, Malvasia Bianca, Montonico Bianco, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pepella, Ripolo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdeca
11 varieties · Costa d’Amalfi Furore Bianco
Asprinio Bianco, Bombino Bianco, Coda di Volpe Bianca, Fiano, Forastera, Greco, Malvasia Bianca, Montonico Bianco, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdeca
13 varieties · Costa d’Amalfi Rosso, Costa d’Amalfi Rosato, Costa d’Amalfi Passito Rosso
Aglianicone, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cesanese Comune, Malvasia, Merlot, Montepulciano, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Sangiovese, Tintore, Tronto
12 varieties · Costa d’Amalfi Tramonti Rosso, Costa d’Amalfi Tramonti Rosato, Costa d’Amalfi Tramonti Rosso Riserva
Aglianicone, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cesanese Comune, Malvasia, Merlot, Montepulciano, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Sangiovese, Tronto
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
1,600
Vines per hectare, minimum
650 m
Highest vineyard allowed
Training
Systems allowed
controspalliera; pergola
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 18.9 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,908 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 335 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.9 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,908
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 481 mm
- Of 1,260 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 244 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 388 m; Vineyard point 2, 313 m; Vineyard point 3, 188 m; Vineyard point 4, 318 m; Vineyard point 5, 466 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. RivesaltesVery similarCompared with Costa d'Amalfi: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio RiservaVery similarCompared with Costa d'Amalfi: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Colli di FaenzaVery similarCompared with Costa d'Amalfi: 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, 244 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: Costa d'Amalfi · 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: Passito wines may range from dry to sweet: minimum actual alcohol is 12% vol for the sweet type and 14% vol for the dry type, and concentration is excluded. Subzone wines (Ravello, Tramonti, Furore) share the base type's acidity, extract and taste descriptors; the text sets only their own yield and alcohol. The spumante alcohol figure is given as 'titolo alcolometrico volumico minimo' without saying total, and it is brut or extra brut. Article 7 allows a riserva for the rosso of the Furore, Ravello and Tramonti subzones (2 years from 1 November, one in wood); only Tramonti Rosso Riserva is added, as the other subzone reds are not in the register.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.