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Where it is
Riviera del Garda Bresciano in Italy
- Latitude
- 45.4°–45.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 102 m to 303 m
- Production zone
- 86,780 ha
Contains 3 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Lugana, San Martino della Battaglia, Valtènesi
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 Riviera del Garda Bresciano must meet.
Blend rules
Riviera del Garda Bresciano/Garda Bresciano Rosso
- 30–60% Groppello (Gentile, S. Stefano, Mocasina) · Main grape
- 10–25% Sangiovese · Allowed
- 5–30% Marzemino (Berzemino) · Allowed
- 10–20% Barbera · Allowed
- ≤ 10% other grapes authorised in Lombardy · Others allowed
Blend rules
Riviera del Garda Bresciano/Garda Bresciano Rosso Superiore
- 30–60% Groppello (Gentile, S. Stefano, Mocasina) · Main grape
- 10–25% Sangiovese · Allowed
- 5–30% Marzemino (Berzemino) · Allowed
- 10–20% Barbera · Allowed
- ≤ 10% other grapes authorised in Lombardy · Others allowed
At least 12 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Riviera del Garda Bresciano/Garda Bresciano Rosso Novello
- 30–60% Groppello (Gentile, S. Stefano, Mocasina) · Main grape
- 10–25% Sangiovese · Allowed
- 5–30% Marzemino (Berzemino) · Allowed
- 10–20% Barbera · Allowed
- ≤ 10% other grapes authorised in Lombardy · Others allowed
Blend rules
Riviera del Garda Bresciano/Garda Bresciano Bianco
- ≤ 100% Riesling Italico / Riesling Renano · Main grape
- ≤ 20% other white grapes authorised in Lombardy (non-aromatic) · Others allowed
Blend rules
Riviera del Garda Bresciano/Garda Bresciano Chiaretto
- 30–60% Groppello (Gentile, S. Stefano, Mocasina) · Main grape
- 10–25% Sangiovese · Allowed
- 5–30% Marzemino (Berzemino) · Allowed
- 10–20% Barbera · Allowed
- ≤ 10% other grapes authorised in Lombardy · Others allowed
Blend rules
Riviera del Garda Bresciano/Garda Bresciano Groppello
- ≥ 85% Groppello (Gentile, Groppellone, Mocasina) · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other grapes authorised in Lombardy · Others allowed
Blend rules
Riviera del Garda Bresciano/Garda Bresciano Rosé
- 30–60% Groppello (Gentile, S. Stefano, Mocasina) · Main grape
- 10–25% Sangiovese · Allowed
- 5–30% Marzemino (Berzemino) · Allowed
- 10–20% Barbera · Allowed
- ≤ 10% other grapes authorised in Lombardy · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
100 varieties · 6 wines
Ancellotta, Bellagna, Bonarda, Bronner, Bussanello, Cabernet Carbon, Cabernet Cortis, Cabernet Eidos, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Volos, Carmenere, Cortese, Corvina, Croatina, Dolcetto, Erbaluce, Erbamat, Erbanno, Fleurtai, Fortana, Franconia, Freisa, Friulano, Garganega, Gewürztraminer, Grappello Ruberti, Helios, Iasma Eco 1, Iasma Eco 2, Iasma Eco 3, Iasma Eco 4, Incrocio Terzi N.1, Invernenga, Johanniter, Julius, Kerner, Lagrein, Lambrusco Grasparossa, Lambrusco Maestri, Lambrusco Marani, Lambrusco Salamino, Lambrusco Viadanese, Lambrusco di Sorbara, Maiolina, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Manzoni Bianco, Merera, Merlot, Merlot Kanthus, Meunier, Molinara, Montepulciano, Moradella, Mornasca, Moscato Giallo, Moscato Rosa, Moscato di Scanzo, Muller Thurgau, Muscaris, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Nebbiolo, Negrara, Petit Verdot, Pignola, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Prior, Raboso Veronese, Rebo, Riesling, Rondinella, Rossola Nera, Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Kretos, Sauvignon Nepis, Sauvignon Rytos, Schiava, Schiava Gentile, Schiava Grigia, Schiava Grossa, Serbina, Solaris, Soreli, Souvignier Gris, Syrah, Teroldego, Timorasso, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Romagnolo, Trebbiano Toscano, Trebbiano di Soave, Uva Rara, Veltliner, Verdea, Verdese, Vespolina, Welschriesling
37 varieties · Riviera del Garda Bresciano/Garda Bresciano Bianco
Bronner, Bussanello, Cortese, Erbaluce, Erbamat, Fleurtai, Friulano, Garganega, Helios, Iasma Eco 3, Iasma Eco 4, Invernenga, Johanniter, Kerner, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Manzoni Bianco, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Muscaris, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Kretos, Sauvignon Nepis, Sauvignon Rytos, Solaris, Soreli, Souvignier Gris, Timorasso, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Romagnolo, Trebbiano Toscano, Trebbiano di Soave, Veltliner, Verdea, Verdese
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
350 m
Highest vineyard allowed
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 18.5 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,826 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 181 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.5 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,826
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 742 mm
- Of 1,126 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 233 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 240 m; Vineyard point 2, 84 m; Vineyard point 3, 118 m; Vineyard point 4, 202 m; Vineyard point 5, 263 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 complex terrain (height corrections up to 4.5 °C); absolute values may be several degrees out, year-to-year changes are more reliable.
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. PiaveVery similarCompared with Riviera del Garda Bresciano: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. GambellaraVery similarCompared with Riviera del Garda Bresciano: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Hrvatska IstraVery similarCompared with Riviera del Garda Bresciano: 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, 233 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: Riviera del Garda Bresciano (version published by MASAF up to May 2023, via the Internet Archive; later amendments not yet included) · 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 elsewhere in the province of Brescia (and, by ministerial permission, Verona and Mantua). The rosé is a sparkling wine (brut or extra brut) made by either the Charmat or the traditional method, so sparkling_method is left null; Art. 7 also requires its total acidity to be below 6 g/l. Novello needs at least 40% carbonic maceration and bottling by 31 December of the harvest year; the 'governo all'uso toscano' is allowed for the rosso.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.