What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Vermentino di Sardegna in Italy
- Latitude
- 38.9°–41.3° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 5 m to 604 m
- Production zone
- 2,410,623 ha
Covers the same area as
Monica di Sardegna, Moscato di Sardegna, Sardegna Semidano
Contains 14 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Alghero, Arborea, Cagliari, Campidano di Terralba, Cannonau di Sardegna, Carignano del Sulcis, Girò di Cagliari, Malvasia di Bosa, Mandrolisai, Moscato di Sorso, Nasco di Cagliari, Nuragus di Cagliari, Vermentino di Gallura, Vernaccia di Oristano
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 Vermentino di Sardegna must meet.
Blend rules
Vermentino di Sardegna
- ≥ 85% Vermentino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised in Sardinia · Others allowed
Blend rules
Vermentino di Sardegna-Frizzante
- ≥ 85% Vermentino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised in Sardinia · Others allowed
Blend rules
Vermentino di Sardegna-Spumante
- ≥ 85% Vermentino · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other non-aromatic white grapes authorised in Sardinia · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
50 varieties · 5 wines
Albaranzeuli Bianco, Alvarega, Aniga Bragia, Ansonica, Argu Mannu, Arneis, Arvesiniadu, Bianca Addosa, Bianca Remungia, Biancolella, Clairette, Codronisca, Cortese, Cranaccia Arussa, Cuccuau, Doronadu, Falanghina, Fiano, Forastera, Friulano, Garganega, Greco, Guarnaccia, Licronaxu, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Malvasia Istriana, Malvasia di Sardegna, Manzoni Bianco, Mara Bianca, Muller Thurgau, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Nasco, Nuragus, Pansale, Pinot Blanc, Retagliado Bianco, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Selezione Vedele, Semidano, Sinnidanu, Sylvaner, Torbato, Trebbiano Romagnolo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdicchio Bianco, Verduzzo Friulano, Vernaccia di Oristano, Vernaccia di S. Giminiano, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,500
Vines per hectare, minimum
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 20.1 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,163 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 255 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 20.1 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,163
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 236 mm
- Of 534 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 94 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 604 m; Vineyard point 2, 168 m; Vineyard point 3, 17 m; Vineyard point 4, 403 m; Vineyard point 5, 82 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:The vineyards are on land too small for the reanalysis grid, so the nearest land cell (up to 12 km away) is used; island climates are usually milder than this. Monthly reanalysis in gentle terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
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. BullasVery similarCompared with Vermentino di Sardegna: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. MéntridaVery similarCompared with Vermentino di Sardegna: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ValdepeñasVery similarCompared with Vermentino di Sardegna: 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, 94 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: Vermentino di Sardegna (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 still and frizzante wines range from dry to amabile and the spumante from brut nature to demi-sec, so sweetness is left null; the spumante method is not specified. Bottling must take place in the zone, but sparkling and frizzante wines may be made and bottled outside Sardinia.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.