What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Savuto in Italy
- Latitude
- 39.0°–39.2° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 351 m to 670 m
- Production zone
- 42,141 ha
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 Savuto must meet.
Blend rules
Savuto Bianco
- ≤ 40% Montonico · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 20% Greco bianco · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Malvasia Bianca · Allowed
- ≤ 45% other white grapes authorised in Calabria · Others allowed
Blend rules
Savuto Rosso
- ≤ 45% Gaglioppo · Main grape
- ≤ 45% Aglianico · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Greco nero / Nerello cappuccio · Allowed
- ≤ 45% other black grapes authorised in Calabria · Others allowed
Blend rules
Savuto Rosso Classico
- ≤ 45% Gaglioppo · Main grape
- ≤ 45% Aglianico · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Greco nero / Nerello cappuccio · Allowed
- ≤ 45% other black grapes authorised in Calabria · Others allowed
Blend rules
Savuto Rosso Superiore
- ≤ 45% Gaglioppo · Main grape
- ≤ 45% Aglianico · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Greco nero / Nerello cappuccio · Allowed
- ≤ 45% other black grapes authorised in Calabria · Others allowed
At least 36 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Savuto Rosato
- ≤ 45% Gaglioppo · Main grape
- ≤ 45% Aglianico · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Greco nero / Nerello cappuccio · Allowed
- ≤ 45% other black grapes authorised in Calabria · Others allowed
Blend rules
Savuto Rosato Classico
- ≤ 45% Gaglioppo · Main grape
- ≤ 45% Aglianico · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Greco nero / Nerello cappuccio · Allowed
- ≤ 45% other black grapes authorised in Calabria · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
13 varieties · Savuto Bianco
Ansonica, Guardavalle, Guarnaccia, Manzoni Bianco, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pecorello, Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdicchio Bianco, Welschriesling, Zibibbo
17 varieties · 5 wines
Alicante, Barbera, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calabrese, Castiglione, Magliocco Canino, Malvasia Nera di Brindisi, Marsigliana Nera, Merlot, Montepulciano, Nerello Mascalese, Nocera, Petit Verdot, Prunesta, Sangiovese, Syrah
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
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 19.3 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,997 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 485 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.3 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,997
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 463 mm
- Of 1,043 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 169 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 469 m; Vineyard point 2, 670 m; Vineyard point 3, 559 m; Vineyard point 4, 351 m; Vineyard point 5, 375 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 2.5 °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. LiracVery similarCompared with Savuto: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Bianco di PitiglianoVery similarCompared with Savuto: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. MontescudaioVery similarCompared with Savuto: 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, 169 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: Savuto (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
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Vineyards for the classico wines may not lie above 700 m a.s.l.; valley-floor and plain vineyards are excluded. Vinification is also allowed in comuni only partly within the zone. Art. 6 gives no separate characteristics for the classico wines, so the rosso and rosato values are repeated.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.