What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Terre dell'Alta Val d'Agri in Italy
- Latitude
- 40.1°–40.4° N
- Production zone
- 25,297 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 Terre dell'Alta Val d'Agri must meet.
Blend rules
Terre dell'Alta Val d’Agri Rosso
- ≥ 50% Merlot · Main grape
- ≥ 30% Cabernet Sauvignon · Main grape
- ≤ 20% other red varieties suitable for Basilicata · Others allowed
At least 12 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Terre dell'Alta Val d’Agri Rosso Riserva
- ≥ 50% Merlot · Main grape
- ≥ 30% Cabernet Sauvignon · Main grape
- ≤ 20% other red varieties suitable for Basilicata · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Terre dell'Alta Val d’Agri Rosato
- ≥ 50% Merlot · Main grape
- ≥ 20% Cabernet Sauvignon · Main grape
- ≥ 10% Malvasia di Basilicata · Main grape
- ≤ 20% other non-aromatic red and white varieties suitable for Basilicata · Others allowed
; release from 1 March 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.
25 varieties · Terre dell'Alta Val d’Agri Rosso, Terre dell'Alta Val d’Agri Rosso Riserva
Aglianico, Aglianico del Vulture, Aglianicone, Barbera, Bombino Nero, Cabernet Franc, Calabrese, Castiglione, Ciliegiolo, Freisa, Guarnaccino, Malbec, Malvasia Nera di Basilicata, Montepulciano, Nebbiolo, Negro Amaro, Nero Buono, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sangiovese, Syrah, Teroldego, Uva di Troia
49 varieties · Terre dell'Alta Val d’Agri Rosato
Aglianico, Aglianico del Vulture, Aglianicone, Ansonica, Asprinio Bianco, Barbera, Bellone, Bombino Bianco, Bombino Nero, Cabernet Franc, Calabrese, Castiglione, Ciliegiolo, Cortese, Falanghina, Fiano, Freisa, Garganega, Greco Bianco, Grillo, Guarnaccino, Malbec, Malvasia Nera di Basilicata, Malvasia di Lipari, Manzoni Bianco, Minutolo, Montepulciano, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Nebbiolo, Negro Amaro, Nero Buono, Pecorello, Pecorino, Petit Manseng, Petit Verdot, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Sangiovese, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Teroldego, Trebbiano Toscano, Uva di Troia, Verdeca, Viognier
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
spalliera semplice
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 17.9 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,687 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 661 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.9 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,687
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 415 mm
- Of 855 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 151 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 1 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 661 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:No vineyards are mapped here yet, so this is the climate at one point in the middle of the zone, which may not be where the vines are. Monthly reanalysis in complex terrain (height corrections up to 1.4 °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. DunaVery similarCompared with Terre dell'Alta Val d'Agri: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. PierrevertVery similarCompared with Terre dell'Alta Val d'Agri: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. DãoVery similarCompared with Terre dell'Alta Val d'Agri: 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, 151 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)
- Disciplinare di produzione: Terre dell'Alta Val d'Agri (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: Vinification and compulsory ageing may take place in the production zone or anywhere in the province of Potenza. Tendone and pergola training are excluded; other systems may be allowed by the Region. Release of Rosso and Riserva is allowed only after their compulsory ageing.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.