What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Galluccio in Italy
- Latitude
- 41.3°–41.4° N
- Production zone
- 17,301 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 Galluccio must meet.
Blend rules
Galluccio Bianco
- ≥ 70% Falanghina · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic white grapes admitted in the province of Caserta · Others allowed
Blend rules
Galluccio Rosso
- ≥ 70% Aglianico · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic red grapes admitted in the province of Caserta · Others allowed
; release from 1 June of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Galluccio Rosso Riserva
- ≥ 70% Aglianico · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic red grapes admitted in the province of Caserta · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing; release from 1 June of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Galluccio Rosato
- ≥ 70% Aglianico · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other non-aromatic red grapes admitted in the province of Caserta · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
16 varieties · Galluccio Bianco
Asprinio Bianco, Bellone, Biancolella, Coda di Volpe Bianca, Fiano, Forastera, Greco, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pallagrello Bianco, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Toscano, Veltliner, Verdeca, Welschriesling
15 varieties · Galluccio Rosso, Galluccio Rosso Riserva, Galluccio Rosato
Aglianicone, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Casavecchia, Ciliegiolo, Merlot, Montepulciano, Pallagrello Nero, Piedirosso, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Sangiovese, Sciascinoso, Uva di Troia
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
500 m
Highest vineyard allowed
Training
Systems allowed
spalliera; controspalliera
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 18.4 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,799 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 241 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.4 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,799
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 579 mm
- Of 1,247 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 235 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 241 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. Cisterna d'AstiVery similarCompared with Galluccio: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Freisa d'AstiVery similarCompared with Galluccio: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Terre AlfieriVery similarCompared with Galluccio: 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, 235 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)
- Disciplinare di produzione: Galluccio · 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: New vineyards are limited to an average of 6 kg of grapes per vine. The riserva's release date, acidity and extract are taken from the Rosso rules.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.