What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Tavoliere delle Puglie in Italy
- Latitude
- 41.1°–41.9° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 65 m to 145 m
- Production zone
- 380,674 ha
Lies within
Aleatico di Puglia
Contains 2 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Orta Nova, Rosso di Cerignola
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 Tavoliere delle Puglie must meet.
Blend rules
Tavoliere delle Puglie/Tavoliere Rosso
- ≥ 65% Nero di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 35% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia Centrale · Others allowed
Blend rules
Tavoliere delle Puglie/Tavoliere Rosato
- ≥ 65% Nero di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 35% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia Centrale · Others allowed
Blend rules
Tavoliere delle Puglie/Tavoliere Rosso Riserva
- ≥ 65% Nero di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 35% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia Centrale · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Tavoliere delle Puglie/Tavoliere Nero di Troia
- ≥ 90% Nero di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia Centrale · Others allowed
Blend rules
Tavoliere delle Puglie/Tavoliere Nero di Troia Riserva
- ≥ 90% Nero di Troia · Main grape
- ≤ 10% other non-aromatic black grapes authorised for Capitanata and Murgia Centrale · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
28 varieties · 5 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, Negro Amaro, Negroamaro Precoce, Notardomenico, Ottavianello, Petit Verdot, Piedirosso, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sangiovese, Somarello Rosso, Susumaniello, Syrah
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
alberello; spalliera (Guyot); spalliera (cordone speronato)
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Emergency only
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 20.7 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,297 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 103 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.7 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,297
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 277 mm
- Of 571 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 99 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 128 m; Vineyard point 2, 72 m; Vineyard point 3, 179 m; Vineyard point 4, 7 m; Vineyard point 5, 130 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. Contessa EntellinaVery similarCompared with Tavoliere delle Puglie: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Moscato di TraniVery similarCompared with Tavoliere delle Puglie: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ArboreaVery similarCompared with Tavoliere delle Puglie: 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, 99 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: Tavoliere delle Puglie (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: All types may be dry or medium-dry ('secco o abboccato'), so sweetness is left null. Vinification is also allowed in comuni bordering the zone; tendone and pergola pugliese are allowed only in existing vineyards.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.