What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
delle Venezie in Italy
- Latitude
- 44.8°–46.7° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 8 m to 526 m
- Production zone
- 3,166,932 ha
Contains 54 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Amarone della Valpolicella, Arcole, Asolo Montello, Bagnoli di Sopra, Bagnoli Friularo, Bardolino, Bardolino Superiore, Bianco di Custoza, Breganze, Carso, Casteller, Colli Asolani - Prosecco, Colli Berici, Colli di Conegliano, Colli Euganei, Colli Euganei Fior d'Arancio, Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit, Collio Goriziano, Conegliano Valdobbiadene - Prosecco, Corti Benedettine del Padovano, Friuli, Friuli Annia, Friuli Aquileia, Friuli Colli Orientali, Friuli Grave, Friuli Isonzo, Friuli Latisana, Gambellara, Lessini Durello, Lison, Lison-Pramaggiore, Merlara, Montello Rosso, Monti Lessini, Piave, Piave Malanotte, Prosecco, Ramandolo, Recioto della Valpolicella, Recioto di Gambellara, Recioto di Soave, Riviera del Brenta, Rosazzo, Soave, Soave Superiore, Teroldego Rotaliano, Trentino, Trento, Valdadige Terradeiforti, Valpolicella, Valpolicella Ripasso, Venezia, Vicenza, Vigneti della Serenissima
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 delle Venezie must meet.
Blend rules
Delle Venezie/Beneških Okolišev Pinot Grigio
- ≥ 85% Pinot Grigio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Chardonnay / Pinot bianco / Muller Thurgau / Garganega / Verduzzo / Tocai friulano · Allowed
Blend rules
Delle Venezie/Beneških Okolišev Pinot Grigio Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Pinot Grigio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Chardonnay / Pinot bianco / Muller Thurgau / Garganega / Verduzzo / Tocai friulano · Allowed
Blend rules
Delle Venezie/Beneških Okolišev Bianco
- ≥ 50% Chardonnay / Pinot bianco / Muller Thurgau / Garganega / Verduzzo / Tocai friulano · Main grape
- – other white grapes suitable for Trento, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto · Others allowed
Blend rules
Delle Venezie/Beneških Okolišev Pinot Grigio Spumante
- ≥ 85% Pinot Grigio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Chardonnay / Pinot bianco / Muller Thurgau / Garganega / Verduzzo / Tocai friulano · Allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
64 varieties · 6 wines
Biancaccia, Bianchetta Trevigiana, Boschera, Bronner, Cividin, Cortese, Dorona, Durella, Flavis, Fleurtai, Glera, Glera Lunga, Goldtraminer, Grapariol, Helios, Iasma Eco 3, Iasma Eco 4, Incrocio Bianco Fedit 51 C.S.G., Incrocio Manzoni 2-3, Italica, Johanniter, Kerner, Lagarino, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Malvasia Istriana, Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Manzoni Bianco, Maor, Marzemina Bianca, Moscato Giallo, Muscaris, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Nosiola, Palava, Paolina, Pedevenda, Perera, Picolit, Pinella, Ribuele, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Kretos, Sauvignon Nepis, Sauvignon Rytos, Sciaglin, Semillon, Solaris, Soreli, Souvignier Gris, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Romagnolo, Trebbiano Toscano, Trebbiano di Soave, Ucelut, Veltliner, Verdealbara, Verdiso, Vespaiola, Viognier, Vitouska, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
Pergola o Pergoletta Veronese (with traditional pruning); forms generally used, excluding tendone and Bellussi
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.3 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,776 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 121 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.3 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,776
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 878 mm
- Of 1,341 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 280 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 97 m; Vineyard point 2, 80 m; Vineyard point 3, 7 m; Vineyard point 4, 31 m; Vineyard point 5, 392 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 complex terrain (height corrections up to 6.6 °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. Friuli AquileiaVery similarCompared with delle Venezie: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. VicenzaVery similarCompared with delle Venezie: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Friuli IsonzoVery similarCompared with delle Venezie: 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, 280 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: delle Venezie · 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: Pinot grigio (still and frizzante) may be dry to off-dry and the spumante ranges from zero dosage to dry, so sweetness is null; Pinot grigio may also be rosato or ramato. Up to 15% Bianco may be added to Pinot grigio; for ten years other non-aromatic white grapes (including Sauvignon) may make up the 15% complement. Vinification is also allowed in the province of Bolzano.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.