What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
I Terreni di Sanseverino in Italy
- Latitude
- 43.2°–43.4° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 374 m to 472 m
- Production zone
- 19,387 ha
Lies within
Vernaccia di Serrapetrona, Serrapetrona, Colli Maceratesi, Rosso Piceno
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.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled I Terreni di Sanseverino must meet.
Blend rules
I Terreni di Sanseverino Rosso
- ≥ 50% Vernaccia Nera · Main grape
- ≤ 50% altre varietà a bacca nera non aromatiche idonee nella regione Marche · Others allowed
At least 18 months' ageing.
Blend rules
I Terreni di Sanseverino Rosso Superiore
- ≥ 50% Vernaccia Nera · Main grape
- ≤ 50% altre varietà a bacca nera non aromatiche idonee nella regione Marche · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
I Terreni di Sanseverino Rosso Passito
- ≥ 50% Vernaccia Nera · Main grape
- ≤ 50% altre varietà a bacca nera non aromatiche idonee nella regione Marche · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
I Terreni di Sanseverino Moro
- ≥ 60% Montepulciano · Main grape
- ≤ 40% altre varietà a bacca nera non aromatiche idonee nella regione Marche · Others allowed
At least 18 months' ageing.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
26 varieties · I Terreni di Sanseverino Rosso, I Terreni di Sanseverino Rosso Superiore, I Terreni di Sanseverino Rosso Passito
Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Canaiolo Nero, Carignan, Ciliegiolo, Colorino, Foglia Tonda, Gaglioppo, Lacrima, Maiolica, Malbo Gentile, Merlot, Montepulciano, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Rebo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sagrantino, Sangiovese, Syrah, Teroldego, Terrano, Vernaccia Nera Grossa
26 varieties · I Terreni di Sanseverino Moro
Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Canaiolo Nero, Carignan, Ciliegiolo, Colorino, Foglia Tonda, Gaglioppo, Lacrima, Maiolica, Malbo Gentile, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Rebo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sagrantino, Sangiovese, Syrah, Teroldego, Terrano, Vernaccia Nera, Vernaccia Nera Grossa
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
500 m
Highest vineyard allowed
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Emergency only
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.6 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,638 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 443 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.6 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,638
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 514 mm
- Of 907 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 149 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 352 m; Vineyard point 2, 467 m; Vineyard point 3, 472 m; Vineyard point 4, 470 m; Vineyard point 5, 456 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. RecaşVery similarCompared with I Terreni di Sanseverino: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. BanatVery similarCompared with I Terreni di Sanseverino: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. DrăgăşaniVery similarCompared with I Terreni di Sanseverino: 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, 149 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: I Terreni di Sanseverino · 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: Passito grapes are dried on the vine and/or in rooms to at least 260 g/l sugar, drying may last until 31 March and vinification may not start before 1 December; it is sweet-labelled 'amabile o dolce', so no single sweetness is recorded. The rule that fermentation and maturation take place in wood of at most 500 litres for at least two years follows the passito paragraphs and is recorded for the passito only. Wall-trained systems including spurred cordon are allowed for new plantings. Wine yield max 70% (43% passito), no hl/ha figure.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.