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Grignolino del Monferrato Casalese

Appellation

Grignolino del Monferrato Casalese is an appellation in Italy across 34 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
1976-03-29
Area
48,919 ha outline of listed communes
Extent N–S × E–W
25.52 × 35.22 km
Centre
45.0687° N, 8.3911° E
Grapes
Freisa, Grignolino

Where it is

Nearest town
8.7 km south-west of Casale Monferrato
Nearest city
25 km north-west of Alessandria 92,104 people
To the sea
78 km
Rivers nearby
Po (10 km) · Tanaro (20 km)
Same latitude
Eola-Amity Hills (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
96–462 m
Mean elevation
192 m

Measured over the whole outline on 168,808 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 del Monferrato Casalese Red
FreisaGrignolino

Bedrock

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

Communes · 34

Wineries · 7

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Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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