What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Lambrusco Mantovano in Italy
- Latitude
- 44.9°–45.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 12 m to 23 m
- Production zone
- 84,066 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 Lambrusco Mantovano must meet.
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Rosso
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Rosso Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Rosato
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Rosato Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Sottozona Viadanese Sabbionetano Rosso
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Sottozona Viadanese Sabbionetano Rosso Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Sottozona Viadanese Sabbionetano Rosato
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Sottozona Viadanese Sabbionetano Rosato Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Sottozona Oltrepò Mantovano Rosso
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Sottozona Oltrepò Mantovano Rosso Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Sottozona Oltrepò Mantovano Rosato
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
Blend rules
Lambrusco Mantovano Sottozona Oltrepò Mantovano Rosato Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Lambrusco Viadanese / Lambrusco Maestri / Lambrusco Marani / Lambrusco Salamino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Lambrusco di Sorbara / Lambrusco Grasparossa / Ancellotta / Fortana · Allowed
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
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 20.0 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,132 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 15 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.0 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,132
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 591 mm
- Of 909 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 184 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 18 m; Vineyard point 2, 10 m; Vineyard point 3, 13 m; Vineyard point 4, 22 m; Vineyard point 5, 14 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. PonikveVery similarCompared with Lambrusco Mantovano: −0.3 °C in the growing season, similar rain.
2. CoriVery similarCompared with Lambrusco Mantovano: same season warmth, drier (−92 mm).
3. VelletriVery similarCompared with Lambrusco Mantovano: same season warmth, drier (−104 mm).
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, 184 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: Lambrusco Mantovano · 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: The specification does not separate still and frizzante versions, so each register name gets the rules of its colour and subzone; every type may be asciutto or amabile, so sweetness is left null. Subzone wines must be vinified within the subzone; the ministry may allow vinification in the provinces of Cremona, Modena and Reggio Emilia for established producers.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.