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Fiano di Avellino

DOCGAppellation

Fiano di Avellino is a DOCG appellation in Italy across 26 communes. The rules allow white wine, based on Fiano. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

White Fiano from the Irpinia hills in Campania, with a long ageing potential unusual for southern whites.
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Key facts

Type
DOP (DOC/DOCG)
Category
Wine
Protected since
1982-12-31
Area
27,623 ha outline of listed communes
Extent N–S × E–W
18.61 × 26.43 km
Centre
40.9247° N, 14.7865° E
Grapes
Coda Di Volpe Bianca, Fiano, Greco, Trebbiano Toscano
Min planting density
2,500 vines/ha
Irrigation
Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town
around the town of Avellino
Nearest city
28 km north of Salerno 125,797 people
To the sea
28 km
Same latitude
Tavush (Armenia), Willow Creek (United States), Huanren icewine (China)

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

Terrain

Elevation
225–1,571 m
Mean elevation
544 m

Measured over the whole outline on 83,505 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.

Wines and grape rules

Fiano di Avellino White
Fiano
min 2,500 vines/ha
Fiano di Avellino Riserva White
Fiano
min 2,500 vines/ha

Bedrock

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

Communes · 26

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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