What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Valdadige in Italy
- Latitude
- 45.0°–46.8° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 98 m to 616 m
- Production zone
- 219,118 ha
Contains 3 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Lago di Caldaro, Teroldego Rotaliano, Valdadige Terradeiforti
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 must meet.
Blend rules
Valdadige Bianco
- ≥ 20% Pinot bianco / Pinot grigio / Riesling italico / Muller Thurgau / Chardonnay · Main grape
- – Trebbiano toscano / Nosiola / Sauvignon / Garganega · Allowed
Blend rules
Valdadige Rosso
- ≥ 50% Enantio (Lambrusco a foglia frastagliata) / Schiave · Main grape
- – Merlot / Pinot nero / Lagrein / Teroldego / Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed
Blend rules
Valdadige Rosato
- ≥ 50% Enantio (Lambrusco a foglia frastagliata) / Schiave · Main grape
- – Merlot / Pinot nero / Lagrein / Teroldego / Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed
Blend rules
Valdadige Pinot Bianco
- ≥ 85% Pinot Blanc · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white varieties suitable for the provinces · Others allowed
Blend rules
Valdadige Pinot Grigio
- ≥ 85% Pinot Grigio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white varieties suitable for the provinces · Others allowed
Blend rules
Valdadige Chardonnay
- ≥ 85% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white varieties suitable for the provinces · Others allowed
Blend rules
Valdadige Schiava
- ≥ 85% Schiava grossa / Schiava gentile / Schiava grigia · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic black varieties suitable for the provinces · Others allowed
Blend rules
Valdadige Chardonnay Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Chardonnay · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white varieties suitable for the provinces · Others allowed
Blend rules
Valdadige Pinot Bianco Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Pinot Blanc · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white varieties suitable for the provinces · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
26 varieties · Valdadige Pinot Bianco, Valdadige Pinot Bianco Frizzante
Biancaccia, Bronner, Goldtraminer, Helios, Iasma Eco 3, Iasma Eco 4, Johanniter, Kerner, Lagarino, Manzoni Bianco, Maor, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Nosiola, Paolina, Petit Manseng, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Solaris, Souvignier Gris, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Toscano, Veltliner, Verdealbara, Viognier, Welschriesling
27 varieties · Valdadige Pinot Grigio, Valdadige Chardonnay, Valdadige Chardonnay Frizzante
Biancaccia, Bronner, Goldtraminer, Helios, Iasma Eco 3, Iasma Eco 4, Johanniter, Kerner, Lagarino, Manzoni Bianco, Maor, Moscato Giallo, Muller Thurgau, Nosiola, Paolina, Petit Manseng, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Solaris, Souvignier Gris, Sylvaner, Trebbiano Toscano, Veltliner, Verdealbara, Viognier, Welschriesling
35 varieties · Valdadige Schiava
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenere, Casetta, Diolinoir, Franconia, Gosen, Groppello Gentile, Groppello di Revo, Groppello di S. Stefano, Iasma Eco 1, Iasma Eco 2, Lagrein, Lambrusco a Foglia Frastagliata, Malvasia, Marzemino, Merlot, Meunier, Negrara, Pavana, Perricone, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Portoghese, Rebo, Regent, Rossara, Saint Laurent, Sennen, Syrah, Tannat, Tempranillo, Teroldego, Turca, Zweigelt
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
pergoletta trentina; spalliera
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 17.7 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,654 growing degree days (Winkler II).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 303 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 17.7 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,654
- Region II: 1,389–1,666 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 875 mm
- Of 1,279 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 245 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 423 m; Vineyard point 2, 469 m; Vineyard point 3, 193 m; Vineyard point 4, 253 m; Vineyard point 5, 178 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 6.1 °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. CarsoVery similarCompared with Valdadige: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. RosazzoVery similarCompared with Valdadige: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Collio GorizianoVery similarCompared with Valdadige: 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, 245 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 (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: Bianco, Rosso, Rosato and Schiava may be 'talvolta amabile' and the frizzanti 'secco o amabile', so sweetness is not recorded. Frizzanti are made by natural re-fermentation (method not specified) within Veneto, Trento or Bolzano; vinification is also allowed across Verona province.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.