What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Romagna Albana in Italy
- Latitude
- 44.0°–44.6° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 20 m to 291 m
- Production zone
- 188,253 ha
Lies within
Romagna
Contains 1 appellation (outlined on the zone map)
Colli d'Imola
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 Romagna Albana must meet.
Blend rules
Romagna Albana Secco
- ≥ 95% Albana · Main grape
- ≤ 5% other white grapes suitable for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
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Romagna Albana Amabile
- ≥ 95% Albana · Main grape
- ≤ 5% other white grapes suitable for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
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Romagna Albana Dolce
- ≥ 95% Albana · Main grape
- ≤ 5% other white grapes suitable for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
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Romagna Albana Passito
- ≥ 95% Albana · Main grape
- ≤ 5% other white grapes suitable for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
; release from 1 September of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Romagna Albana Passito Riserva
- ≥ 95% Albana · Main grape
- ≤ 5% other white grapes suitable for Emilia-Romagna · Others allowed
; release from 1 December 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.
36 varieties · 5 wines
Alionza, Bervedino, Biancame, Bombino Bianco, Durella, Famoso, Fiano, Friulano, Garganega, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Malvasia Istriana, Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Manzoni Bianco, Marsanne, Melara, Montu', Mostosa, Muller Thurgau, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Ortrugo, Pignoletto, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Ruggine, Santa Maria, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Spergola, Trebbianina, Trebbiano Modenese, Trebbiano Romagnolo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdea, Verdicchio Bianco, Vernaccina, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
1,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
parete (including cordone permanente); pergoletta; alberello; duplex
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.4 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,021 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 108 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.4 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,021
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 478 mm
- Of 828 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 153 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 100 m; Vineyard point 2, 38 m; Vineyard point 3, 12 m; Vineyard point 4, 381 m; Vineyard point 5, 7 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. Bianco di PitiglianoVery similarCompared with Romagna Albana: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. RomaVery similarCompared with Romagna Albana: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. TavelVery similarCompared with Romagna Albana: 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, 153 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: Romagna Albana (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: Minimum vine density for new plantings depends on training: 1,500 (pergoletta), 2,500 (duplex), 2,750 (wall-trained) and 5,000 (alberello) vines/ha. Passito grapes are dried until up to 30 March after the harvest and must reach at least 284 g/l sugar; a noble-rot passito riserva from must of at least 400 g/l may have actual alcohol as low as 4.0% vol. Winemaking may take place anywhere in the provinces of Forlì-Cesena, Ravenna and Bologna.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.