What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Grottino di Roccanova in Italy
- Latitude
- 40.1°–40.3° N
- Production zone
- 19,660 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 Grottino di Roccanova must meet.
Blend rules
Grottino di Roccanova Rosso
- 60–85% Sangiovese · Main grape
- 5–30% Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed
- 5–30% Malvasia Nera di Basilicata · Allowed
- 5–30% Montepulciano · Allowed
- ≤ 10% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised in Basilicata · Others allowed
At least 9 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Grottino di Roccanova Rosso Riserva
- 60–85% Sangiovese · Main grape
- 5–30% Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed
- 5–30% Malvasia Nera di Basilicata · Allowed
- 5–30% Montepulciano · Allowed
- ≤ 10% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised in Basilicata · Others allowed
At least 36 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Grottino di Roccanova Bianco
- ≥ 80% Malvasia Bianca di Basilicata · Main grape
- ≤ 20% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised in Basilicata · Others allowed
At least 5 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Grottino di Roccanova Rosato
- 60–85% Sangiovese · Main grape
- 5–30% Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed
- 5–30% Malvasia Nera di Basilicata · Allowed
- 5–30% Montepulciano · Allowed
- ≤ 10% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised in Basilicata · Others allowed
At least 5 months' ageing.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
23 varieties · Grottino di Roccanova Rosso, Grottino di Roccanova Rosso Riserva, Grottino di Roccanova Rosato
Aglianico, Aglianico del Vulture, Aglianicone, Barbera, Bombino Nero, Cabernet Franc, Calabrese, Castiglione, Ciliegiolo, Freisa, Guarnaccino, Malbec, Merlot, Nebbiolo, Negro Amaro, Nero Buono, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Syrah, Teroldego, Uva di Troia
24 varieties · Grottino di Roccanova Bianco
Ansonica, Asprinio Bianco, Bellone, Bombino Bianco, Cortese, Falanghina, Fiano, Garganega, Greco Bianco, Grillo, Malvasia di Lipari, Manzoni Bianco, Minutolo, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pecorello, Pecorino, Petit Manseng, Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdeca, Viognier
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,300
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
spalliera semplice
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Emergency only
Irrigation
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.7 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,653 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 698 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.7 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,653
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 392 mm
- Of 791 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 141 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 2 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 692 m; Vineyard point 2, 703 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.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
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. ЕвксиноградVery similarCompared with Grottino di Roccanova: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. ВарнаVery similarCompared with Grottino di Roccanova: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. NicoreştiVery similarCompared with Grottino di Roccanova: 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, 141 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: Grottino di Roccanova · 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: Vinification and bottling must take place within the Basilicata region (not only the production zone). The grape-to-wine yield table gives 70% on the Rosso line only, with the other types' cells blank (probably a merged cell), so it is recorded for Rosso only. The Rosso Riserva matures for 36 months in cave ('in grotta').
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.