What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Galatina in Italy
- Latitude
- 40.1°–40.3° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 99 m to 119 m
- Production zone
- 18,855 ha
Lies within
Terra d'Otranto, Negroamaro di Terra d'Otranto, Aleatico di Puglia
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 Galatina must meet.
Blend rules
Galatina Bianco
- ≥ 55% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 45% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
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Galatina Bianco Chardonnay
- ≥ 85% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
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Galatina Bianco Frizzante
- ≥ 55% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 45% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
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Galatina Bianco Frizzante Chardonnay
- ≥ 85% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
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Galatina Chardonnay
- ≥ 85% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
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Galatina Negroamaro
- ≥ 85% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
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Galatina Negroamaro Riserva
- ≥ 85% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
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Galatina Rosato
- ≥ 65% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 35% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
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Galatina Rosato Frizzante
- ≥ 65% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 35% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
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Galatina Rosso
- ≥ 65% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 35% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
Blend rules
Galatina Rosso Novello
- ≥ 65% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 35% other non-aromatic red grapes authorised for the province of Lecce · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
30 varieties · 5 wines
Asprinio Bianco, Bianco d'Alessano, Bombino Bianco, Falanghina, Fiano, Francavidda, Garganega, Greco, Greco Bianco, Grillo, Malvasia Bianca, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Manzoni Bianco, Maresco, Minutolo, Moscatello Selvatico, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pampanuto, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdeca, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Welschriesling
27 varieties · 6 wines
Aglianico, Aglianicone, Barbera, Bombino Nero, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calabrese, Lacrima, Lambrusco Maestri, Malbec, Malvasia Nera di Basilicata, Malvasia Nera di Brindisi, Malvasia Nera di Lecce, Merlot, Montepulciano, Negroamaro Precoce, Notardomenico, Ottavianello, Petit Verdot, Piedirosso, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sangiovese, Susumaniello, Syrah, Uva di Troia
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
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 21.5 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,453 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 81 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.5 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,453
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 300 mm
- Of 690 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 163 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 114 m; Vineyard point 2, 61 m; Vineyard point 3, 67 m; Vineyard point 4, 72 m; Vineyard point 5, 93 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. Primitivo di ManduriaVery similarCompared with Galatina: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Primitivo di Manduria Dolce NaturaleVery similarCompared with Galatina: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Μαυροδάφνη ΠατρώνVery similarCompared with Galatina: 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, 163 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: Galatina · 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: The text does not govern “Bianco Chardonnay” or a frizzante Chardonnay separately; they are given the Chardonnay rules (the frizzante only vineyard-stage values, as Article 6 has no frizzante Chardonnay). Vinification is also allowed in neighbouring communes of Lecce, Brindisi and Taranto provinces.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.