What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi in Italy
- Latitude
- 43.3°–43.7° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 125 m to 399 m
- Production zone
- 80,672 ha
Lies within
Rosso Piceno
Covers the same area as
Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva
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 Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi must meet.
Blend rules
Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi
- ≥ 85% Verdicchio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white varieties suitable for Marche · Others allowed
Blend rules
Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Spumante
- ≥ 85% Verdicchio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white varieties suitable for Marche · Others allowed
Blend rules
Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Passito
- ≥ 85% Verdicchio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white varieties suitable for Marche · Others allowed
; release from 1 December of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico
- ≥ 85% Verdicchio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white varieties suitable for Marche · Others allowed
Blend rules
Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore
- ≥ 85% Verdicchio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white varieties suitable for Marche · Others allowed
Blend rules
Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Spumante riserva
- ≥ 85% Verdicchio · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white varieties suitable for Marche · Others allowed
At least 12 months' ageing.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
34 varieties · 6 wines
Albana, Albarola, Ansonica, Biancone, Canaiolo Bianco, Clairette, Durella, Fiano, Grechetto, Greco, Incrocio Bruni 54, Livornese Bianca, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Malvasia Istriana, Manzoni Bianco, Marsanne, Muller Thurgau, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Nocchianello Bianco, Orpicchio, Petit Manseng, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Roussanne, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdea, Verdello, Vermentino, Vernaccia di S. Giminiano, Viognier, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
2,200
Vines per hectare, minimum
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 18.9 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,915 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 219 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.9 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,915
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 461 mm
- Of 819 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 145 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 112 m; Vineyard point 2, 252 m; Vineyard point 3, 140 m; Vineyard point 4, 251 m; Vineyard point 5, 338 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. Trebbiano d'AbruzzoVery similarCompared with Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Costa d'AmalfiVery similarCompared with Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Долината на СтрумаVery similarCompared with Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi: 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, 145 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: Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi (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: The tendone pergola is prohibited. Enrichment is allowed for all types except Passito. Passito grapes are dried until at most 30 March after the harvest to at least 23% sugar; it is 'da amabile a dolce' (medium to sweet). The Spumante ranges from extra brut to secco, and may be labelled riserva after at least one year of ageing including nine months on the lees.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.