What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Lison in Italy
- Latitude
- 45.6°–45.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- -1 m to 19 m
- Production zone
- 87,484 ha
Lies within
Prosecco, delle Venezie
Covers the same area as
Lison-Pramaggiore
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 Lison must meet.
Blend rules
Lison
- ≥ 85% Tai · Main grape
- – other non-aromatic white varieties authorised for the provinces of Venezia, Treviso and Pordenone · Others allowed
; release from 1 January of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Lison Classico
- ≥ 85% Tai · Main grape
- – other non-aromatic white varieties authorised for the provinces of Venezia, Treviso and Pordenone · Others allowed
; release from 1 January 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.
43 varieties · Lison, Lison Classico
Bianchetta Trevigiana, Boschera, Bronner, Cividin, Dorona, Flavis, Fleurtai, Glera, Glera Lunga, Grapariol, Helios, Incrocio Manzoni 2-3, Italica, Johanniter, Malvasia Istriana, Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Manzoni Bianco, Marzemina Bianca, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Muscaris, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Palava, Perera, Picolit, Pinot Blanc, Ribuele, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Kretos, Sauvignon Nepis, Sauvignon Rytos, Sciaglin, Semillon, Solaris, Soreli, Souvignier Gris, Ucelut, Verdiso, Verduzzo Friulano, Verduzzo Trevigiano, Viognier, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
controspalliera semplice; controspalliera doppia
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.7 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,855 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 8 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.7 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,855
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 822 mm
- Of 1,312 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 308 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 6 m; Vineyard point 2, -1 m; Vineyard point 3, 14 m; Vineyard point 4, 4 m; Vineyard point 5, 16 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. Friuli AnniaVery similarCompared with Lison: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Vigneti della SerenissimaVery similarCompared with Lison: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. VeneziaVery similarCompared with Lison: 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, 308 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: Lison · 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: Vinification is also allowed in listed neighbouring communes. The share of other varieties is not stated as a figure, only implied by the 85% minimum for Tai.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.