What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Gioia del Colle in Italy
- Latitude
- 40.7°–41.0° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 72 m to 359 m
- Production zone
- 141,579 ha
Lies within
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 Gioia del Colle must meet.
Blend rules
Gioia del Colle Bianco
- 50–70% Trebbiano Toscano · Main grape
- 30–50% other white grapes authorised in Puglia (Murgia centrale) · Others allowed
Blend rules
Gioia del Colle Rosso
- 50–60% Primitivo · Main grape
- 40–50% Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Negroamaro / Malvasia nera · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Malvasia Nera · Allowed
Blend rules
Gioia del Colle Rosato
- 50–60% Primitivo · Main grape
- 40–50% Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Negroamaro / Malvasia nera · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Malvasia Nera · Allowed
Blend rules
Gioia del Colle Aleatico Dolce
- ≥ 85% Aléatico · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Negroamaro / Malvasia nera / Primitivo · Allowed
Blend rules
Gioia del Colle Aleatico Liquoroso Dolce
- ≥ 85% Aléatico · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Negroamaro / Malvasia nera / Primitivo · Allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
36 varieties · Gioia del Colle Bianco
Antinello, Asprinio Bianco, Bianco d'Alessano, Biancolella, Bombino Bianco, Cococciola, Coda di Volpe Bianca, Falanghina, Fiano, Francavidda, Garganega, Greco, Greco Bianco, Grillo, Malvasia Bianca, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Manzoni Bianco, Marchione, Maresco, Minutolo, Montonico Bianco, Moscatello Selvatico, Mostosa, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pampanuto, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Giallo, Verdeca, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.2 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,189 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 249 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.2 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,189
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 315 mm
- Of 644 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 129 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 154 m; Vineyard point 2, 368 m; Vineyard point 3, 227 m; Vineyard point 4, 203 m; Vineyard point 5, 292 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. CorseVery similarCompared with Gioia del Colle: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. LocorotondoVery similarCompared with Gioia del Colle: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Moscato di SorsoVery similarCompared with Gioia del Colle: 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, 129 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: Gioia del Colle · 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: Primitivo and Aleatico grape yield is given as 80 quintals per hectare (8 t/ha), left null because the figure is not written in tonnes. Primitivo may be lightly amabile (sugar up to 10 g/l), so its sweetness is left null. The liquoroso is made by adding alcohol. The text mentions compulsory ageing but sets no period.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.