What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Lizzano in Italy
- Latitude
- 40.3°–40.6° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 12 m to 38 m
- Production zone
- 31,432 ha
Lies within
Primitivo di Manduria, Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale, Terra d'Otranto, Negroamaro di Terra d'Otranto, Aleatico di Puglia
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.
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 Lizzano must meet.
Blend rules
Lizzano Rosso
- 60–80% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 40% Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Bombino nero / Pinot nero · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Malvasia nera di Brindisi / Malvasia nera di Lecce · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Rosso Novello
- 60–80% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 40% Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Bombino nero / Pinot nero · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Malvasia nera di Brindisi / Malvasia nera di Lecce · Allowed
; release from 6 November of the harvest year.
Blend rules
Lizzano Rosso Frizzante
- 60–80% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 40% Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Bombino nero / Pinot nero · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Malvasia nera di Brindisi / Malvasia nera di Lecce · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Rosato
- 60–80% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 40% Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Bombino nero / Pinot nero · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Malvasia nera di Brindisi / Malvasia nera di Lecce · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Rosato Novello
- 60–80% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 40% Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Bombino nero / Pinot nero · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Malvasia nera di Brindisi / Malvasia nera di Lecce · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Rosato Spumante
- 60–80% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 40% Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Bombino nero / Pinot nero · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Malvasia nera di Brindisi / Malvasia nera di Lecce · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Rosato Frizzante
- 60–80% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 40% Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Bombino nero / Pinot nero · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Malvasia nera di Brindisi / Malvasia nera di Lecce · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Bianco
- 40–60% Trebbiano Toscano · Main grape
- ≥ 30% Chardonnay / Pinot bianco · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Malvasia lunga bianca · Allowed
- ≤ 25% Sauvignon / Bianco d’Alessano · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Bianco Spumante
- 40–60% Trebbiano Toscano · Main grape
- ≥ 30% Chardonnay / Pinot bianco · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Malvasia lunga bianca · Allowed
- ≤ 25% Sauvignon / Bianco d’Alessano · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Bianco Frizzante
- 40–60% Trebbiano Toscano · Main grape
- ≥ 30% Chardonnay / Pinot bianco · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Malvasia lunga bianca · Allowed
- ≤ 25% Sauvignon / Bianco d’Alessano · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Negroamaro Rosso
- ≥ 85% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Malvasia nera di Brindisi / Malvasia nera di Lecce / Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Pinot nero · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Negroamaro Rosato
- ≥ 85% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Malvasia nera di Brindisi / Malvasia nera di Lecce / Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Pinot nero · Allowed
Blend rules
Lizzano Malvasia Nera
- ≥ 85% Malvasia nera di Brindisi / Malvasia nera di Lecce · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Negroamaro / Montepulciano / Sangiovese / Pinot nero · Allowed
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 21.5 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,468 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 25 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.5 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,468
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 252 mm
- Of 591 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 129 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 32 m; Vineyard point 2, 28 m; Vineyard point 3, 12 m; Vineyard point 4, 15 m; Vineyard point 5, 38 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. SalaparutaVery similarCompared with Lizzano: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. S. Anna di Isola Capo RizzutoVery similarCompared with Lizzano: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. MatinoVery similarCompared with Lizzano: same season warmth, wetter (+35 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, 129 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: Lizzano · 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: Frizzante and novello types have no characteristics of their own in Article 6, so only vineyard-stage values are given. The 3500 vines/ha minimum and medium-spread, spur-pruned training (preferably vertical trellis) apply to new plantings. Novello rosso is made by carbonic maceration; the text sets a release date only for Rosso Novello. Vinification must be in Lizzano, Faggiano and Taranto communes.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.