What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Vigneti della Serenissima in Italy
- Latitude
- 45.2°–46.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 31 m to 324 m
- Production zone
- 436,429 ha
Lies within
delle Venezie
Contains 17 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Amarone della Valpolicella, Asolo Montello, Colli Asolani - Prosecco, Colli di Conegliano, Conegliano Valdobbiadene - Prosecco, Gambellara, Lessini Durello, Montello Rosso, Monti Lessini, Recioto della Valpolicella, Recioto di Gambellara, Recioto di Soave, Soave, Soave Superiore, Valdadige Terradeiforti, Valpolicella, Valpolicella Ripasso
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.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Vigneti della Serenissima must meet.
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
3,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
700 m
Highest vineyard allowed
Training
Systems allowed
cordone speronato; Guyot; capovolto (semplice e doppio); pergoletta veronese; pergola trentina
No forcing
Forcing the vines is prohibited
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 18.6 °C, warm on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,831 growing degree days (Winkler III).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 89 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 18.6 °C
- Warm · 17–19 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,831
- Region III: 1,667–1,943 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 774 mm
- Of 1,195 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 244 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 84 m; Vineyard point 2, 118 m; Vineyard point 3, 160 m; Vineyard point 4, 53 m; Vineyard point 5, 32 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. PiaveVery similarCompared with Vigneti della Serenissima: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Riviera del Garda BrescianoVery similarCompared with Vigneti della Serenissima: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. VeneziaVery similarCompared with Vigneti della Serenissima: 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, 244 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: Vigneti della Serenissima (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: Yields and natural alcohol are set per variety (Chardonnay 13.5 t/ha and 9.5% vol; Pinot bianco 13.5 t/ha and 9%; Pinot nero 12 t/ha and 9%), not per wine; millesimato grapes need 1% vol more, riserva 2 t/ha less and 1% vol more. Rosé and riserva alcohol minimums (11.5% and 12%) are not stated as total or actual. Density is at least 3,500 vines/ha for cordon and Guyot, 3,000 for pergola; machine harvesting is banned; vinification must be in Veneto. Styles: brut nature to sec (base, rosé), to dry (millesimato), to brut (riserva).
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.