What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Rosazzo in Italy
- Latitude
- 45.9°–46.0° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 48 m to 140 m
- Production zone
- 6,759 ha
Lies within
Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit, Friuli Colli Orientali, Friuli Grave, Friuli, Prosecco, delle Venezie
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.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Rosazzo must meet.
Blend rules
Rosazzo
- ≥ 50% Friulano · Main grape
- 20–30% Sauvignon Blanc · Allowed
- 20–30% Pinot bianco / Chardonnay · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Ribolla Gialla · Allowed
- ≤ 5% other white grapes suitable for the province of Udine · Others allowed
; release from 1 April of the second 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.
22 varieties · Rosazzo
Cividin, Fleurtai, Glera, Malvasia Istriana, Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Manzoni Bianco, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Palava, Picolit, Ribuele, Riesling, Sauvignon Kretos, Sauvignon Nepis, Sauvignon Rytos, Sciaglin, Soreli, Sylvaner, Ucelut, Verduzzo Friulano, Viognier, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
4,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.6 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,628 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 66 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.6 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,628
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 908 mm
- Of 1,518 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 358 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 95 m; Vineyard point 2, 37 m; Vineyard point 3, 63 m; Vineyard point 4, 50 m; Vineyard point 5, 85 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. Teroldego RotalianoVery similarCompared with Rosazzo: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. ValdadigeVery similarCompared with Rosazzo: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Friuli GraveVery similarCompared with Rosazzo: 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, 358 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: Rosazzo (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 in the rest of the communes of San Giovanni al Natisone, Manzano and Corno di Rosazzo and their neighbouring communes. New vineyards may average no more than 2 kg of grapes per vine; wooden vessels are permitted.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.