Italy · DOP (DOC/DOCG)

Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro

Appellation

Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro is an appellation in Italy across 14 communes. The rules allow red and rosé wine, based on Lambrusco Grasparossa and Malbo Gentile. Regional bedrock: unconsolidated sediments.

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Key facts

Type: DOP (DOC/DOCG)
Category: Quality Sparkling Wine/Semi-Sparkling Wine/Sparkling Wine
Protected since: 1973-09-18
Area: 73,270 ha outline of listed communes
Extent N–S × E–W: 39.46 × 42.17 km
Centre: 44.5590° N, 10.9459° E
Grapes: Lambrusca Di Alessandria, Lambrusco A Foglia Frastagliata, Lambrusco Barghi, Lambrusco Di Sorbara, Lambrusco Grasparossa, Lambrusco Maestri, Lambrusco Marani, Lambrusco Montericco, Lambrusco Oliva, Lambrusco Salamino, Lambrusco Viadanese, Malbo Gentile
Irrigation: Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town: 1.5 km north-east of Castelnuovo Rangone
Nearest city: 10 km south of Modena 184,732 people
To the sea: 92 km
Same latitude: Willamette Valley (United States), Nova Scotia (Annapolis Valley) (Canada)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 23–875 m
Mean elevation: 133 m

Measured over the whole outline on 248,324 elevation cells of about 54 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.