What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Lacrima di Morro in Italy
- Latitude
- 43.5°–43.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 55 m to 192 m
- Production zone
- 26,113 ha
Lies within
Esino, 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 Lacrima di Morro must meet.
Blend rules
Lacrima di Morro/Lacrima di Morro d’Alba
- ≥ 85% Lacrima · Main grape
- ≤ 15% altri vitigni a bacca nera non aromatizzati idonei nella regione Marche · Others allowed
; release from 15 December of the harvest year.
Blend rules
Lacrima di Morro Superiore/Lacrima di Morro d’Alba Superiore
- ≥ 85% Lacrima · Main grape
- ≤ 15% altri vitigni a bacca nera non aromatizzati idonei nella regione Marche · Others allowed
; release from 1 September of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Lacrima di Morro Passito/Lacrima di Morro d’Alba Passito
- ≥ 85% Lacrima · Main grape
- ≤ 15% altri vitigni a bacca nera non aromatizzati idonei nella regione Marche · Others allowed
; release from 1 December of the year after the harvest.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
26 varieties · Lacrima di Morro/Lacrima di Morro d’Alba, Lacrima di Morro Superiore/Lacrima di Morro d’Alba Superiore, Lacrima di Morro Passito/Lacrima di Morro d’Alba Passito
Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Canaiolo Nero, Carignan, Ciliegiolo, Colorino, Foglia Tonda, Gaglioppo, Maiolica, Malbo Gentile, Merlot, Montepulciano, 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
2,200
Vines per hectare, minimum
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Emergency only
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.7 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,074 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 104 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.7 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,074
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 412 mm
- Of 749 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 137 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 148 m; Vineyard point 2, 2 m; Vineyard point 3, 228 m; Vineyard point 4, 110 m; Vineyard point 5, 34 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. Ansonica Costa dell'ArgentarioVery similarCompared with Lacrima di Morro: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Les Baux de ProvenceVery similarCompared with Lacrima di Morro: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. CapalbioVery similarCompared with Lacrima di Morro: 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, 137 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: Lacrima di Morro · 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: Training systems are those traditional in the zone, tendone excluded; density minimum applies to new plantings. Passito grapes may dry until 30 March after the harvest, may not be vinified before 1 November, and must reach at least 21% sugar; no enrichment for passito. Wine yields have no hl/ha figure. Sweetening is allowed under EU and national rules; no sweetness level is stated.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.