What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Valdadige Terradeiforti in Italy
- Latitude
- 45.5°–45.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 98 m to 223 m
- Production zone
- 14,428 ha
Lies within
Valdadige, Vigneti della Serenissima, 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.
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 Valdadige Terradeiforti must meet.
Blend rules
Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Pinot Grigio
- ≥ 85% Pinot Grigio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white varieties suitable for Verona and Trento · Others allowed
At least 4 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Pinot Grigio Superiore
- ≥ 85% Pinot Grigio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white varieties suitable for Verona and Trento · Others allowed
At least 10 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Enantio
- ≥ 85% Enantio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black varieties suitable for Verona and Trento · Others allowed
At least 10 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Enantio Riserva
- ≥ 85% Enantio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black varieties suitable for Verona and Trento · Others allowed
At least 36 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Casetta
- ≥ 85% Casetta · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black varieties suitable for Verona and Trento · Others allowed
At least 10 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Casetta Riserva
- ≥ 85% Casetta · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black varieties suitable for Verona and Trento · Others allowed
At least 36 months' ageing.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
46 varieties · Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Pinot Grigio, Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Pinot Grigio Superiore
Biancaccia, Bianchetta Trevigiana, Bronner, Cortese, Durella, Fleurtai, Friulano, Garganega, Goldtraminer, Grapariol, Helios, Iasma Eco 3, Iasma Eco 4, Johanniter, Kerner, Lagarino, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Istriana, Manzoni Bianco, Maor, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Muscaris, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Nosiola, Palava, Paolina, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Kretos, Sauvignon Nepis, Sauvignon Rytos, Semillon, Solaris, Soreli, Souvignier Gris, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Romagnolo, Trebbiano Toscano, Trebbiano di Soave, Veltliner, Verdealbara, Viognier, Welschriesling
58 varieties · Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Enantio, Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Enantio Riserva
Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Carbon, Cabernet Cortis, Cabernet Eidos, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Volos, Carmenere, Casetta, Corbina, Corvina, Corvinone, Croatina, Dindarella, Forsellina, Franconia, Gamay, Gosen, Groppello Gentile, Groppello di Revo, Groppello di S. Stefano, Iasma Eco 1, Iasma Eco 2, Julius, Lagrein, Marselan, Marzemina Grossa, Marzemino, Merlot, Merlot Kanthus, Merlot Khorus, Meunier, Molinara, Negrara, Oseleta, Pavana, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Portoghese, Prior, Raboso Veronese, Rebo, Regent, Rondinella, Rossara, Rossignola, Saint Laurent, Sangiovese, Schiava Gentile, Schiava Grigia, Schiava Grossa, Sennen, Spigamonti, Syrah, Teroldego, Turca, Turchetta
58 varieties · Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Casetta, Valdadige Terradeiforti/Terradeiforti Casetta Riserva
Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Carbon, Cabernet Cortis, Cabernet Eidos, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Volos, Carmenere, Corbina, Corvina, Corvinone, Croatina, Dindarella, Forsellina, Franconia, Gamay, Gosen, Groppello Gentile, Groppello di Revo, Groppello di S. Stefano, Iasma Eco 1, Iasma Eco 2, Julius, Lagrein, Lambrusco a Foglia Frastagliata, Marselan, Marzemina Grossa, Marzemino, Merlot, Merlot Kanthus, Merlot Khorus, Meunier, Molinara, Negrara, Oseleta, Pavana, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Portoghese, Prior, Raboso Veronese, Rebo, Regent, Rondinella, Rossara, Rossignola, Saint Laurent, Sangiovese, Schiava Gentile, Schiava Grigia, Schiava Grossa, Sennen, Spigamonti, Syrah, Teroldego, Turca, Turchetta
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
spalliera semplice; pergola mono e bilaterale inclinata
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 19.1 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,955 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 162 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.1 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,955
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 803 mm
- Of 1,214 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 243 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 128 m; Vineyard point 2, 179 m; Vineyard point 3, 92 m; Vineyard point 4, 192 m; Vineyard point 5, 220 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 5.4 °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. Lison-PramaggioreVery similarCompared with Valdadige Terradeiforti: −0.3 °C in the growing season, similar rain.
2. Riviera del BrentaVery similarCompared with Valdadige Terradeiforti: same season warmth, drier (−108 mm).
3. Candia dei Colli ApuaniVery similarCompared with Valdadige Terradeiforti: −0.3 °C in the growing season, 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, 243 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: Valdadige Terradeiforti (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: Ageing periods are a 'maturazione' counted from 1 November of the harvest year, with no wood requirement. Vinification is also allowed in Caprino Veronese, Ala and Rovereto.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.