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DOC · Appellation profile

Fara

3,400 haProduction zone
2Wines in the rules
17.1 °CGrowing season · warm
IIWinkler region

What is made here

Wine colours

The only colour the rules allow.

100% Red

Where it is

Fara in Italy

Latitude
45.5°–45.6° N
Vineyard altitude
215 m to 262 m
Production zone
3,400 ha

Lies within
Colline Novaresi, 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.

01 · What the law says

The rules

Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Fara must meet.

2 wines in the rules.
WineMain grape(s)Max yield
t/ha		Wine from grapes
max. %		Grape ripeness
min. % pot. alc.		Wine
min. % alc.		Acidity
min. g/l		Dry extract
min. g/l		Ageing
min. months		In wood
min. months
Fara 60% Nebbiolo (Spanna)97012124.5202212
Fara Riserva 60% Nebbiolo (Spanna)8.17012.512.55213420

From the official production rules (disciplinare di produzione). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Blend rules

Fara

  • ≥ 60% Nebbiolo (Spanna) · Main grape
  • ≤ 40% Vespolina / Uva rara · Allowed

At least 22 months' ageing; release from 1 September of the second year after the harvest.

Blend rules

Fara Riserva

  • ≥ 60% Nebbiolo (Spanna) · Main grape
  • ≤ 40% Vespolina / Uva rara · Allowed

At least 34 months' ageing; release from 1 September of the third year after the harvest.

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
200–300 m
Vineyard altitude allowed
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Prohibited
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 17.1 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,529 growing degree days (Winkler II).

The average year  1991–2020, vineyards at about 230 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
2.2° 74 Jan 3.6° 76 Feb 7.5° 97 Mar 11.2° 139 Apr 15.7° 162 May 19.7° 134 Jun 22.1° 94 Jul 21.7° 117 Aug 17.2° 159 Sep 12.3° 179 Oct 7.0° 190 Nov 2.7° 83 Dec
Growing-season temperature
17.1 °C
Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days
1,529
Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
Growing-season rain
984 mm
Of 1,504 mm a year
Harvest rain
338 mm
September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 242 m; Vineyard point 2, 192 m; Vineyard point 3, 230 m; Vineyard point 4, 220 m; Vineyard point 5, 268 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.

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. TeranVery similarCompared with Fara: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Friuli Colli OrientaliVery similarCompared with Fara: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. KrasVery similarCompared with Fara: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Fara
17.1 °C
Teran
17.2 °C
Friuli Colli Orientali
17.2 °C
Kras
17.0 °C

Growing degree days

Fara
1,529
Teran
1,537
Friuli Colli Orientali
1,552
Kras
1,499

Growing-season rain

Fara
984 mm
Teran
969 mm
Friuli Colli Orientali
955 mm
Kras
954 mm

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, 338 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

  1. 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
  2. Quality wines in Italy and France: a dataset of PDO specifications · figshare 25393261 · CC BY 4.0
  3. ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
  4. OpenStreetMap vineyard areas (landuse=vineyard), from Geofabrik country extracts · OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
  5. Copernicus DEM GLO-90 (AWS open data tiles) · European Space Agency / Copernicus · Copernicus DEM licence
  6. Disciplinare di produzione: Fara · Ministero dell'agricoltura, della sovranità alimentare e delle foreste (MASAF) · Official act
  7. Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
  8. 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, ageing and bottling are limited to listed communes in the provinces of Novara, Vercelli and Biella. Grape-to-wine yield falls to 68% after the ageing period. Fara with 'vigna' needs 21.0 g/l dry extract.
  • National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.