What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Falanghina del Sannio in Italy
- Latitude
- 41.0°–41.5° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 69 m to 539 m
- Production zone
- 207,021 ha
Covers the same area as
Sannio
Contains 1 appellation (outlined on the zone map)
Aglianico del Taburno
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 Falanghina del Sannio must meet.
Blend rules
Falanghina del Sannio
- ≥ 85% Falanghina · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes suitable for the province of Benevento · Others allowed
Blend rules
Falanghina del Sannio Vendemmia Tardiva
- ≥ 85% Falanghina · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes suitable for the province of Benevento · Others allowed
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Falanghina del Sannio Passito
- ≥ 85% Falanghina · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes suitable for the province of Benevento · Others allowed
; release from 1 June of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Falanghina del Sannio Spumante
- ≥ 85% Falanghina · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes suitable for the province of Benevento · Others allowed
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Falanghina del Sannio Spumante di Qualità
- ≥ 85% Falanghina · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes suitable for the province of Benevento · Others allowed
Blend rules
Falanghina del Sannio Spumante di Qualità Metodo Classico
- ≥ 85% Falanghina · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes suitable for the province of Benevento · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
10 varieties · Falanghina del Sannio, Falanghina del Sannio Vendemmia Tardiva, Falanghina del Sannio Passito
Asprinio Bianco, Biancolella, Coda di Volpe Bianca, Fiano, Forastera, Greco, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdeca
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
controspalliera
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.1 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,939 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 289 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.1 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,939
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 449 mm
- Of 979 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 186 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 217 m; Vineyard point 2, 376 m; Vineyard point 3, 416 m; Vineyard point 4, 148 m; Vineyard point 5, 290 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. AbruzzoVery similarCompared with Falanghina del Sannio: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Rosso di MontalcinoVery similarCompared with Falanghina del Sannio: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ControguerraVery similarCompared with Falanghina del Sannio: 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, 186 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: Falanghina del Sannio · 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: Values are for wines without a subzone; the subzones (Guardia Sanframondi o Guardiolo, Sant'Agata dei Goti, Solopaca, Taburno) have higher natural and total alcohol minima and, for vendemmia tardiva and some passito, lower yields (8-11 t/ha); the yield tables are garbled in the source. Vinification must take place in the province of Benevento. The passito is amabile or dolce and may not use concentrated must; spumanti range from extra brut to extra dry (metodo classico extra brut or brut).
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.