Gravina · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Gravina in Italy

Latitude: 40.7°–41.0° N
Production zone: 103,442 ha

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 Gravina must meet.

5 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max yield t/ha	Max wine hl/ha	Wine from grapes max. %	Grape ripeness min. % pot. alc.	Wine min. % alc.	Actual alc. min. %	Acidity min. g/l	Dry extract min. g/l
Gravina Bianco	Greco, Malvasia Bianca / Bianca Lunga	12	84	70	10.5	11	–	4.5	20
Gravina Rosato	Montepulciano, Primitivo	12	84	70	10.5	11	–	4.5	20
Gravina Rosso	Montepulciano, Primitivo	12	84	70	10.5	11.5	–	5	23
Gravina Spumante	Greco, Malvasia Bianca / Bianca Lunga	12	84	70	10.5	10	–	4.5	20
Gravina Passito	100% Malvasia	12	60	50	10.5	15	12	4.5	23

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

Gravina Bianco

≥ 50% Greco · Main grape
≥ 20% Malvasia Bianca / Bianca Lunga · Main grape
≤ 30% Fiano / Verdeca / Bianco di Alessano / Chardonnay · Allowed

Blend rules

Gravina Rosato

≥ 40% Montepulciano · Main grape
≥ 20% Primitivo · Main grape
≤ 30% Aglianico / Uva di Troia / Merlot / Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed

Blend rules

Gravina Rosso

≥ 40% Montepulciano · Main grape
≥ 20% Primitivo · Main grape
≤ 30% Aglianico / Uva di Troia / Merlot / Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed

Blend rules

Gravina Spumante

≥ 50% Greco · Main grape
≥ 20% Malvasia Bianca / Bianca Lunga · Main grape
≤ 30% Fiano / Verdeca / Bianco di Alessano / Chardonnay · Allowed

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 19.3 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,989 growing degree days (Winkler IV).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 422 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 19.3 °C; Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 1,989; Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
Growing-season rain: 320 mm; Of 632 mm a year
Harvest rain: 110 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 422 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. BandolVery similarCompared with Gravina: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. DoTejoVery similarCompared with Gravina: same season warmth, drier (−34 mm).

3. PrioratVery similarCompared with Gravina: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Gravina

19.3 °C

Bandol

19.4 °C

DoTejo

19.3 °C

Priorat

19.2 °C

Growing degree days

Gravina

1,989

Bandol

2,002

DoTejo

1,998

Priorat

1,960

Growing-season rain

Gravina

320 mm

Bandol

334 mm

DoTejo

286 mm

Priorat

317 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, 110 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: Gravina · 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 bianco may be dry or amabile (sweetness left null). Passito grapes are lightly dried to at least 23% reducing sugars; the passito may be amabile or sweet. Spumante must be made within the province of Bari; method not stated.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.