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Grignolino d'Asti

Appellation

Grignolino d'Asti is an appellation in Italy across 35 communes. The rules allow red wine, based on Freisa and Grignolino. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

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Key facts

Type
DOP (DOC/DOCG)
Category
Wine
Protected since
1973-09-18
Area
58,761 ha outline of listed communes
Extent N–S × E–W
40.18 × 23.97 km
Centre
44.8983° N, 8.2392° E
Grapes
Freisa, Grignolino
Irrigation
Prohibited

Where it is

Nearest town
around the town of Asti
Nearest city
29 km west of Alessandria 92,104 people
To the sea
65 km
Rivers nearby
Tanaro (0.2 km)
Same latitude
Mount Pisgah, Polk County, Oregon (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
96–482 m
Mean elevation
183 m

Measured over the whole outline on 201,551 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.

Wines and grape rules

Grignolino d’Asti Red
FreisaGrignolino

Bedrock

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 35

Wineries · 12

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Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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