Grape Variety: Negroamaro

Colour: Red

Negroamaro, also Negro amaro, is a red wine grape variety native to southern Italy. It is grown almost exclusively in Puglia and particularly in Salento, the peninsula also known as the “heel” of Italy. The grape can indeed produce wines very deep in colour. Wines made from Negroamaro tend to be very rustic in character, combining perfume with an earthy bitterness. The grape produces some of the best red wines of Puglia, particularly when blended with the highly scented Malvasia Nera, as in the case of Salice Salentino. Although amaro is the Italian for ‘bitter’, the name is thought to derive from two words meaning ‘black’: the Latin ‘negro’ and the ancient Greek ‘maru’.

We list a varietal Negromaro and a Salice but they are in the price bracket where winemaking smooths the savage grape variety

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