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DOC · Appellation profile

Martina / Martina Franca

73,831 haProduction zone
2Wines in the rules
20.1 °CGrowing season · hot
IVWinkler region

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Martina in Italy

Latitude
40.6°–40.9° N
Production zone
73,831 ha

Lies within
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 Martina must meet.

2 wines in the rules, all colours.
WineMain grape(s)Max yield
t/ha		Max wine
hl/ha		Wine from grapes
max. %		Grape ripeness
min. % pot. alc.		Wine
min. % alc.		Acidity
min. g/l		Dry extract
min. g/l
Martina/Martina Franca Verdeca, Bianco d'Alessano13917010114.514
Martina/Martina Franca (white) Bianco d'Alessano, Bombino Bianco, Fiano +21391–––––

From the official production rules (disciplinare di produzione). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Blend rules

Martina/Martina Franca

  • 50–65% Verdeca · Main grape
  • 35–50% Bianco d'Alessano · Main grape
  • ≤ 5% Fiano / Bombino / Malvasia bianca · Allowed

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Prohibited
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 20.1 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,162 growing degree days (Winkler IV).

The average year  1991–2020, vineyards at about 351 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
7.4° 62 Jan 7.6° 61 Feb 9.9° 63 Mar 12.8° 61 Apr 17.5° 43 May 22.4° 29 Jun 25.1° 19 Jul 25.3° 20 Aug 20.7° 60 Sep 16.7° 75 Oct 12.5° 85 Nov 8.7° 65 Dec
Growing-season temperature
20.1 °C
Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days
2,162
Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
Growing-season rain
306 mm
Of 642 mm a year
Harvest rain
135 mm
September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 351 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. Moscato di SorsoVery similarCompared with Martina: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. CorseVery similarCompared with Martina: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Gioia del ColleVery similarCompared with Martina: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Martina
20.1 °C
Moscato di Sorso
20.2 °C
Corse
20.2 °C
Gioia del Colle
20.2 °C

Growing degree days

Martina
2,162
Moscato di Sorso
2,184
Corse
2,181
Gioia del Colle
2,189

Growing-season rain

Martina
306 mm
Moscato di Sorso
297 mm
Corse
320 mm
Gioia del Colle
315 mm

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, 135 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

  1. 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
  2. Quality wines in Italy and France: a dataset of PDO specifications · figshare 25393261 · CC BY 4.0
  3. ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
  4. Disciplinare di produzione: Martina · Ministero dell'agricoltura, della sovranità alimentare e delle foreste (MASAF) · Official act
  5. Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
  6. Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
  • Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
  • From the specification: Article 6 also gives characteristics for a spumante (total alcohol 11.00% vol, of which 9.50% actual; dry to sweet), which Article 1 does not list and the register does not name separately. Vinification is also allowed in Locorotondo and Cisternino.
  • National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.