What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Vignanello in Italy
- Latitude
- 42.3°–42.5° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 137 m to 304 m
- Production zone
- 24,493 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 Vignanello must meet.
Blend rules
Vignanello Rosso
- ≥ 50% Sangiovese · Main grape
- ≤ 40% Ciliegiolo · Allowed
- ≤ 20% other grapes suitable for Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Vignanello Rosso Novello
- ≥ 50% Sangiovese · Main grape
- ≤ 40% Ciliegiolo · Allowed
- ≤ 20% other grapes suitable for Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Vignanello Rosso Riserva
- ≥ 50% Sangiovese · Main grape
- ≤ 40% Ciliegiolo · Allowed
- ≤ 20% other grapes suitable for Lazio · Others allowed
At least 24 months' ageing.
Blend rules
Vignanello Bianco
- ≥ 70% Trebbiano toscano / Trebbiano giallo · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Malvasia bianca di Candia / Malvasia del Chianti · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other grapes suitable for Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Vignanello Bianco Superiore
- ≥ 70% Trebbiano toscano / Trebbiano giallo · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Malvasia bianca di Candia / Malvasia del Chianti · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other grapes suitable for Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Vignanello Bianco Vendemmia Tardiva
- ≥ 70% Trebbiano toscano / Trebbiano giallo · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Malvasia bianca di Candia / Malvasia del Chianti · Allowed
- ≤ 15% other grapes suitable for Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Vignanello Greco/Greco di Vignanello
- ≥ 85% Greco · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white grapes suitable for Lazio · Others allowed
Blend rules
Vignanello Greco Vendemmia Tardiva/Greco Vendemmia Tardiva di Vignanello
- ≥ 85% Greco · Main grape
- ≤ 15% other white grapes suitable for Lazio · Others allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
29 varieties · Vignanello Rosso, Vignanello Rosso Novello, Vignanello Rosso Riserva
Abbuoto, Aglianico, Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Bombino Nero, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calabrese, Canaiolo Nero, Carignan, Cesanese Comune, Cesanese D Affile, Cesenese Nero, Grechetto Rosso, Lambrusco Maestri, Lecinaro, Merlot, Montepulciano, Nero Buono, Olivella Nera, Petit Verdot, Piedirosso, Pinot Noir, Primitivo, Sciascinoso, Syrah, Tannat, Tempranillo
36 varieties · Vignanello Bianco, Vignanello Bianco Superiore, Vignanello Bianco Vendemmia Tardiva
Bellone, Biancolella, Bombino Bianco, Canaiolo Bianco, Capolongo, Falanghina, Fiano, Forastera, Friulano, Grechetto, Greco, Greco Bianco, Guarnaccia, Malvasia del Lazio, Manzoni Bianco, Maturano, Montonico Bianco, Moscato Giallo, Moscato di Terracina, Mostosa, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pampanaro, Passerina, Pecorino, Petit Manseng, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Trebbiano di Soave, Verdello, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Vernaccia di S. Giminiano, Viognier, Welschriesling
39 varieties · Vignanello Greco/Greco di Vignanello, Vignanello Greco Spumante/Greco di Vignanello Spumante, Vignanello Greco Vendemmia Tardiva/Greco Vendemmia Tardiva di Vignanello
Bellone, Biancolella, Bombino Bianco, Canaiolo Bianco, Capolongo, Falanghina, Fiano, Forastera, Friulano, Grechetto, Greco Bianco, Guarnaccia, Malvasia Bianca Lunga, Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Malvasia del Lazio, Manzoni Bianco, Maturano, Montonico Bianco, Moscato Giallo, Moscato di Terracina, Mostosa, Muscat Blanc A Petits Grains, Pampanaro, Passerina, Pecorino, Petit Manseng, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Toscano, Trebbiano di Soave, Verdello, Verdicchio Bianco, Vermentino, Vernaccia di S. Giminiano, Viognier, Welschriesling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
140 m
Lowest vineyard allowed
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
Cellar
Where the wine must be made
Within the production zone
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.3 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,993 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 212 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.3 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,993
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 575 mm
- Of 1,099 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 254 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 178 m; Vineyard point 2, 272 m; Vineyard point 3, 304 m; Vineyard point 4, 260 m; Vineyard point 5, 44 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 moderately complex 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. San Colombano al LambroVery similarCompared with Vignanello: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. ModenaVery similarCompared with Vignanello: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ReggianoVery similarCompared with Vignanello: 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, 254 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: Vignanello (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: Art. 2 sets grape rules for Greco and Greco vendemmia tardiva but does not name the Greco spumante, so no grape rules are recorded for it; its yield and grape-to-wine limits are those given for «Greco». Bianco and Greco range from dry to sweet/abboccato. Vendemmia tardiva grapes are partially dried; vinification is also allowed in the whole territory of the communes partly within the zone.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.