Italy · DOP (DOC/DOCG)

Casavecchia di Pontelatone

Appellation

Casavecchia di Pontelatone is an appellation in Italy across 8 communes. The rules allow red wine, based on Casavecchia. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

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Key facts

Type: DOP (DOC/DOCG)
Category: Wine
Protected since: 2011-12-05
Area: 18,725 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W: 13.59 × 23.01 km
Centre: 41.1991° N, 14.3386° E
Grapes: Aglianico, Aglianicone, Alicante, Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Casavecchia, Cesanese Comune, Ciliegiolo, Lambrusco Maestri, Malvasia, Merlot, Montepulciano, Olivella Nera, Pallagrello Nero, Piedirosso, Pinot Nero, Primitivo, Sangiovese, Sciascinoso, Tintore, Tronto, Uva Di Troia
Max yield: 63 hl/ha
Min planting density: 2,500 vines/ha
Irrigation: Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town: 14 km north of Caserta
Nearest city: 19 km north of Marcianise 40,239 people
To the sea: 40 km
Rivers nearby: Volturno (4.7 km)
Same latitude: Tavush (Armenia), Huanren icewine (China), Bolnisi (Georgia), North Fork of Long Island (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 19–958 m
Mean elevation: 244 m

Measured over the whole outline on 57,156 elevation cells of about 58 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.