Negrara (ne-GRA-ra)

A minor blending grape in the powerful Italian wine amarone and lighter bodied Valpolicella. Considered lower in quality than corvina and rondinella with which it is blended.

Chile is missing something most other wine countries have. Is it:

A. The legal ability for wineries to sell directly to consumers

B. A system of geographic appellations

C. Phylloxera

D. Taxes on wine

Chile is the only major wine country in the world where no phylloxera exists. A lethal insect, phylloxera devastated most of the world’s vineyards in the 19th century, after which vines were necessarily grafted onto resistant rootstock. But most of the vines in Chile today remain ungrafted. Phylloxera’s curious absence is not fully understood.

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The percentage of sugar in Spain’s famous dessert wine Pedro Ximénez, making it one of the sweetest wines in the world. The extremely dark mahogany colored wine is so dense and syrupy it is sometimes… Continue reading

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