What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Salice Salentino in Italy
- Latitude
- 40.3°–40.5° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 32 m to 58 m
- Production zone
- 33,026 ha
Lies within
Negroamaro di Terra d'Otranto, Terra d'Otranto, 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 Salice Salentino must meet.
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Rosso
- ≥ 75% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 25% other red varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia · Others allowed
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Rosso Negroamaro/Negro Amaro
- ≥ 90% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other red varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia · Others allowed
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Rosato
- ≥ 75% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 25% other red varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia · Others allowed
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Rosato Negroamaro/Negro Amaro
- ≥ 90% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other red varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia · Others allowed
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Aleatico Riserva
- ≥ 85% Aléatico · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Negroamaro / Malvasia nera / Primitivo · Allowed
At least 24 months' ageing; release from 1 March after the harvest year.
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Aleatico Dolce
- ≥ 85% Aléatico · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Negroamaro / Malvasia nera / Primitivo · Allowed
; release from 1 March after the harvest year.
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Aleatico Liquoroso Dolce
- ≥ 85% Aléatico · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Negroamaro / Malvasia nera / Primitivo · Allowed
; release from 1 March after the harvest year.
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Aleatico Liquoroso Riserva
- ≥ 85% Aléatico · Main grape
- ≤ 15% Negroamaro / Malvasia nera / Primitivo · Allowed
At least 24 months' ageing; release from 1 March after the harvest year.
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Bianco
- ≥ 70% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other white varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia (excluding Moscato bianco and Moscatello selvatico) · Others allowed
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Chardonnay
- ≥ 85% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia (excluding Moscato bianco and Moscatello selvatico) · Others allowed
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Fiano
- ≥ 85% Fiano · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia (excluding Moscato bianco and Moscatello selvatico) · Others allowed
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Pinot Bianco
- ≥ 85% Pinot Blanc · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia (excluding Moscato bianco and Moscatello selvatico) · Others allowed
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Rosso Riserva
- ≥ 75% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 25% other red varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
DOP Salice Salentino Rosso Riserva Negroamaro/Negro Amaro
- ≥ 90% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other red varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Salice Salentino Bianco Spumante
- ≥ 70% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 30% other white varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia (excluding Moscato bianco and Moscatello selvatico) · Others allowed
Blend rules
Salice Salentino Rosato Spumante
- ≥ 75% Negroamaro · Main grape
- ≤ 25% other red varieties suitable for the Salento-Arco Ionico zone of Puglia · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
27 varieties · 10 wines
Aglianico, Aglianicone, Barbera, Bombino Nero, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calabrese, Lacrima, Lambrusco Maestri, Malbec, Malvasia Nera di Basilicata, Malvasia Nera di Brindisi, Malvasia Nera di Lecce, Merlot, Montepulciano, Negroamaro Precoce, Notardomenico, Ottavianello, Petit Verdot, Piedirosso, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sangiovese, Susumaniello, Syrah, Uva di Troia
3 varieties · 4 wines
28 varieties · 4 wines
Asprinio Bianco, Bianco d'Alessano, Bombino Bianco, Falanghina, Fiano, Francavidda, Garganega, Greco, Greco Bianco, Grillo, Malvasia Bianca, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Manzoni Bianco, Maresco, Minutolo, Pampanuto, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdeca, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Welschriesling
27 varieties · DOP Salice Salentino Fiano, DOP Salice Salentino Fiano (white)
Asprinio Bianco, Bianco d'Alessano, Bombino Bianco, Falanghina, Francavidda, Garganega, Greco, Greco Bianco, Grillo, Malvasia Bianca, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Manzoni Bianco, Maresco, Minutolo, Pampanuto, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdeca, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Welschriesling
27 varieties · DOP Salice Salentino Pinot Bianco, DOP Salice Salentino Pinot Bianco (white)
Asprinio Bianco, Bianco d'Alessano, Bombino Bianco, Falanghina, Fiano, Francavidda, Garganega, Greco, Greco Bianco, Grillo, Malvasia Bianca, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Manzoni Bianco, Maresco, Minutolo, Pampanuto, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdeca, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,800
Vines per hectare, minimum
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 21.8 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,516 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 49 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 21.8 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,516
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 303 mm
- Of 641 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 144 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 39 m; Vineyard point 2, 62 m; Vineyard point 3, 58 m; Vineyard point 4, 34 m; Vineyard point 5, 51 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. ΑγχίαλοςVery similarCompared with Salice Salentino: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. EriceVery similarCompared with Salice Salentino: same season warmth, drier (−56 mm).
3. BinissalemVery similarCompared with Salice Salentino: same season warmth, drier (−61 mm).
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, 144 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: Salice Salentino (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: Pergola and tendone training are not allowed. The yield table's layout drops the t/ha figure for Chardonnay and Negroamaro rosso (probably 12 t/ha as for the neighbouring rows), so those are left empty. Still bianco, rosso and rosato types may be secco or abboccato (max. 10 g/l sugar); varietal and plain bianco/rosato may also be made as spumante (bottle or tank, extra brut to extra dry; grapes need only 10% vol. natural alcohol), added here as two products. Aleatico Riserva takes the Aleatico dolce characteristics; the liquoroso riserva ageing runs from fortification. The Aleatico wine yield is not stated.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.