Italy · DOP (DOC/DOCG)

Lambrusco Salamino di Santa Croce

Appellation

Lambrusco Salamino di Santa Croce is an appellation in Italy across 13 communes. The rules allow red and rosé wine, based on Ancellotta, Fortana and Lambrusco Salamino. 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: 88,170 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W: 44.21 × 46.39 km
Centre: 44.7655° N, 10.9101° E
Grapes: Ancellotta, Fortana, 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
Irrigation: Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town: 3.2 km south-east of Carpi
Nearest city: 13 km north of Modena 184,732 people
To the sea: 107 km
Same latitude: Nova Scotia (Annapolis Valley) (Canada), Willamette Valley (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 5–63 m
Mean elevation: 23 m

Measured over the whole outline on 75,641 elevation cells of about 108 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.