Italy · DOP (DOC/DOCG)

Falerno del Massico

Appellation

Falerno del Massico is an appellation in Italy across 5 communes. The rules allow white and red wine, based on Falanghina, Aglianico, Piedirosso and Primitivo. Regional bedrock: unconsolidated sediments.

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Key facts

Type: DOP (DOC/DOCG)
Category: Wine
Protected since: 1996-11-15
Area: 35,927 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W: 30.63 × 23.49 km
Centre: 41.1895° N, 13.9254° E
Grapes: Aglianico, Aglianicone, Alicante, Ancellotta, Asprinio Bianco, Barbera, Bellone, Biancolella, Bombino Bianco, Cabernet Sauvignon, Casavecchia, Cesanese Comune, Ciliegiolo, Coda Di Volpe Bianca, Falanghina, Fenile, Fiano, Forastera, Ginestra, Greco, Lambrusco Maestri, Malvasia Bianca, Malvasia Bianca Di Candia, Malvasia, Merlot, Montepulciano, Montonico Bianco, Moscato Bianco, Olivella Nera, Pallagrello Bianco, Pallagrello Nero, Pepella, Piedirosso, Pinot Bianco, Pinot Nero, Primitivo, Riesling Italico, Riesling Renano, Ripolo, Roviello, Sangiovese, Sciascinoso, Sylvaner Verde, Tintore, Trebbiano Toscano, Tronto, Uva Di Troia, Veltliner, Verdeca
Other grapes: Caprettone, Catalanesca, S. Lunardo
Max yield: 70 hl/ha
Min planting density: 3,500 vines/ha
Irrigation: Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town: 6.2 km south-east of Cellole
Nearest city: 37 km north-west of Giugliano in Campania 80,269 people
To the sea: 8 km
Rivers nearby: Sacco (13 km) · Volturno (15 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: 0–928 m
Mean elevation: 118 m

Measured over the whole outline on 109,470 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.