Italy · DOP (DOC/DOCG)

Montello Rosso

DOCGAppellation

Montello Rosso is a DOCG appellation in Italy across 18 communes. The rules allow red wine, based on Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenere and Merlot. Regional bedrock: unconsolidated sediments.

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Key facts

Official name: Montello Rosso / Montello
Type: DOP (DOC/DOCG)
Category: Wine
Protected since: 2011-12-12
Area: 43,486 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W: 20.41 × 41.68 km
Centre: 45.8182° N, 12.0017° E
Grapes: Ancellotta, Barbera, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Corbina, Fertilia, Franconia, Incrocio Manzoni 2-14, Incrocio Manzoni 2. 15, Lambrusco Di Sorbara, Malbech, Manzoni Moscato, Marzemina Grossa, Marzemino, Merlot, Nigra, Petit Verdot, Pinot Nero, Prodest, Raboso Piave, Raboso Veronese, Rebo, Recantina, Refosco Dal Peduncolo Rosso, Regent, Syrah, Tocai Rosso, Turchetta, Wildbacher
Other grapes: Cabernet Carbon, Cabernet Cortis, Cabernet Eidos, Cabernet Volos, Carmenere, Julius, Marselan, Merlot Kanthus, Merlot Khorus, Prior
Max yield: 70 hl/ha
Min planting density: 3,500 vines/ha
Irrigation: Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town: 4.1 km north of Caerano di San Marco
Nearest city: 25 km north-west of Treviso 85,760 people
To the sea: 45 km
Rivers nearby: Piave (5.6 km)
Same latitude: The Burn of Columbia Valley (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 45–1,770 m
Mean elevation: 277 m

Measured over the whole outline on 154,024 elevation cells of about 53 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.