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Pentro di Isernia

Appellation

Pentro di Isernia is an appellation in Italy across 17 communes. The rules allow red, rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

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Key facts

Official name
Pentro di Isernia / Pentro
Type
DOP (DOC/DOCG)
Category
Wine
Protected since
1999-02-19
Area
53,197 ha registered outline
Separate plots
2
Extent N–S × E–W
51.03 × 42.23 km
Centre
41.5513° N, 14.1743° E
Grapes
Aglianico, Barbera, Bombino Bianco, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Ciliegiolo, Falanghina, Fiano, Garganega, Greco, Malvasia Bianca Di Candia, Malvasia Di Candia Aromatica, Merlot, Montepulciano, Moscato Bianco, Moscato Giallo, Moscato Nero Di Acqui, Negro Amaro, Petit Verdot, Pinot Bianco, Pinot Nero, Primitivo, Riesling Italico, Riesling Renano, Sagrantino, Sangiovese, Sauvignon, Syrah, Tintilia, Trebbiano Modenese, Trebbiano Romagnolo, Trebbiano Toscano, Verdicchio Bianco
Max yield
77 hl/ha

Where it is

Nearest town
7 km south-west of Isernia
Nearest city
41 km west of Campobasso 49,230 people
To the sea
51 km
Same latitude
Kakheti (Georgia), Western Connecticut Highlands (United States), South Islands (Canada), Huanren icewine (China)

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

Terrain

Elevation
160–1,376 m
Mean elevation
609 m

Measured over the whole outline on 41,485 elevation cells of about 114 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

Pentro di Isernia/Pentro Rosso Red
MontepulcianoTintilia
max 77 hl/ha
Pentro di Isernia/Pentro Rosso Riserva Red
MontepulcianoTintilia
max 77 hl/ha
Pentro di Isernia/Pentro Rosato Rosé
MontepulcianoTintilia
max 71.5 hl/ha
Pentro di Isernia/Pentro Bianco White
Bombino BiancoFalanghinaTrebbiano Toscano
max 55.8 hl/ha

Bedrock

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

Communes · 17

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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