What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Moscato di Sardegna in Italy
- Latitude
- 38.9°–41.3° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 5 m to 650 m
- Production zone
- 2,410,623 ha
Covers the same area as
Monica di Sardegna, Sardegna Semidano, Vermentino di Sardegna
Contains 14 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Alghero, Arborea, Cagliari, Campidano di Terralba, Cannonau di Sardegna, Carignano del Sulcis, Girò di Cagliari, Malvasia di Bosa, Mandrolisai, Moscato di Sorso, Nasco di Cagliari, Nuragus di Cagliari, Vermentino di Gallura, Vernaccia di Oristano
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 Moscato di Sardegna must meet.
Blend rules
Moscato di Sardegna Bianco
- – Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other white grapes authorised in Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 1 March after the harvest year.
Blend rules
Moscato di Sardegna Passito
- – Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other white grapes authorised in Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 1 July after the harvest year.
Blend rules
Moscato di Sardegna da Uve Stramature
- – Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other white grapes authorised in Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 1 July after the harvest year.
Blend rules
Moscato di Sardegna Vino Spumante
- – Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 15 October of the harvest year.
Blend rules
Moscato di Sardegna Vino Spumante di Qualità
- – Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other aromatic white grapes authorised in Sardegna · Others allowed
; release from 15 October of the harvest year.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
50 varieties · Moscato di Sardegna Bianco, Moscato di Sardegna Passito, Moscato di Sardegna da Uve Stramature
Albaranzeuli Bianco, Alvarega, Aniga Bragia, Ansonica, Argu Mannu, Arneis, Arvesiniadu, Bianca Addosa, Bianca Remungia, Biancolella, Clairette, Codronisca, Cortese, Cranaccia Arussa, Cuccuau, Doronadu, Falanghina, Fiano, Forastera, Friulano, Garganega, Greco, Guarnaccia, Licronaxu, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Malvasia Istriana, Malvasia di Sardegna, Manzoni Bianco, Mara Bianca, Muller Thurgau, Nasco, Nuragus, Pansale, Pinot Blanc, Retagliado Bianco, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Selezione Vedele, Semidano, Sinnidanu, Sylvaner, Torbato, Trebbiano Romagnolo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdicchio Bianco, Verduzzo Friulano, Vermentino, Vernaccia di Oristano, Vernaccia di S. Giminiano, Welschriesling
3 varieties · Moscato di Sardegna Vino Spumante, Moscato di Sardegna Vino Spumante di Qualità
Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Malvasia Istriana, Malvasia di Sardegna
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.4 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,231 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 172 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.4 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,231
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 255 mm
- Of 592 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 105 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 697 m; Vineyard point 2, 35 m; Vineyard point 3, 96 m; Vineyard point 4, 22 m; Vineyard point 5, 11 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.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
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. Dominio de ValdepusaVery similarCompared with Moscato di Sardegna: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Santa Margherita di BeliceVery similarCompared with Moscato di Sardegna: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ValenciaVery similarCompared with Moscato di Sardegna: 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, 105 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: Moscato di Sardegna · 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: Moscato bianco share is not given as a figure (other grapes up to 10%; aromatic white only for spumante). Passito grapes are dried to at least 272 g/l sugar; concentration is banned for bianco, passito and stramature; spumante grapes above 13% vol must be sparkled with their own sugar only. Vinification anywhere in Sardinia.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.