Negrara
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Red grape variety whose name identifies a group of distinctly different from each other grapes, grown mainly in the Trentino, Alto Adige and Veneto. The most common characteristic is the Negrara thirty.
Tinta Negra Mole is a red wine variety widely planted in Madeira, where it usually makes the sweeter wines. It also occurs in Portugal's Algarve, where its production is lighter weight and dry, and in Spain where it is called just plain Negramoll.
NEGRARA: Red wine producing variety grown in the Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto regions of Italy. Best known for its inclusion in Bardolino DOC wine blends. Has several synonym names but is of little interest as a varietal wine.
Tinta Negra Mole, Sercial, Verdelho, Bual, Malvasia
The most widely planted variety is Tinta Negra Mole but it is the other four 'noble' varieties that are most highly prized for ageworthy, quality wines.
In the least valued Madeira is usually used the Tinta Negra Mole grape, a red berried grape.
Tinta Negra Mole is the most common grape in Madeira and is generally used in bulk wines and the cheaper 3 year old blends. The four classic grapes, in order from driest to sweetest, are Sercial, Verdelho, Bual and Malmsey.
Since the epidemic, Tinta Negra Mole is the workhorse variety on the island and is found in various concentrations in many blends and vintage wines. Of these, Bastardo and Tinta Negra Mole are red grape varieties, the rest are all white.
Has the synonym names Negra and Loureiro Tinto in Portugal. Recently found (1999) by Spanish researchers to be identical with the variety Jaén (du Dao), although some growers still insist the variety is a mutated version of Cabernet Franc.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Variety, Madeira, Style
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